1. Fully realized female characters
2. most of them driving the plot while the men exist
3. woman wear suit, aha
4. admire fellow pretty women while the men EXIST
so yea you can clearly see why so many people point and scream yuri at this manhwa. I do think some of yall are bit too devasted, but I don't feel like defending this manhwa for the heartbreak it caused me in not only this mid adventure arc but cancling the Empress' divorce like a last min bank transfer rejection. I love what this story could've been.
We shall create a creed for all romance writers to swear an oath upon, to never introduce a 2ML/FL for the sake of carrying a whole arc on their back and rattle up a relationship that has sailed into the sunset already, and will in no way break under the mild pressure of a side piece who's flirty and flamboyant-coded to underline the purpose of their existence.
So, the current if-team-rocket-had-a-child ass prince wants Leo gone because he's actually the son of the previous crown prince and Johan's sister. That much is certain. But I don't think that's the only reason.
It smells like the chop cut twink is just another tool for the temple. And I'm guessing at this point but they must've enabled him for greater reasons than getting rid of some prince. By getting rid of Leo they want to achieve something, and I think that it's either part of their experiments OR because they desire to monopolize their holy powers.
That's why they're so annoying about getting rid of "Blue Ruby" too, they took a page out of feminine hygiene product advertizing and want to sell the solution to a problem they have created. They want absolute monopoly over wraith eradication.
The Ace guild might've been in on their bs too, it seems too great of a coincidence that FL, who was probably tortured by the temple to create those holy powers, was being trafficed by the guild. Or the guild simply stole FL away from the temple? Since she looked much younger in that dungeon/torture flashback and around her teens when she met ML. But that is conspiratorial territory.










This might just me projecting some deeper meaning onto the recent chapter - but when the sis explained how Mia knows how to defend herself and what not, and it showed her almost being caught by this marine...
Like the overlapping of those 2 scenes makes me think that Mia wouldn't be helpless at all (we just didn't get to see anything in that moment bc the boys handled it). Mermaid magic was already mentioned as well as the sister's suspicions about how mermaids couldn't have been pure war victims, so I'm thinking that homegirl can become a weapon that she doth not dare use based on cinnamon roll levels of kindness and naivity. That's my head cannon for now anyway- Can you tell how hard I'm hyperfixating on this story?