
i LOVE it when artists are cinematic. they speak more with their artistic choices versus the plot (fujimoto and his work w csm kinda reminds me of this, too), and i think it speaks so well when we follow this type of MC. like when in ch12 the backdrop suddenly becomes all TV static, and we just see nothing but MC's flat stare and the words of his coworker, like holy shit i could FEEL that. like when you're SO done and angry and you can't even do anything about it, and all you can hear is the ringing in your ears with the only clear audio and visual being the fucking words coming out of someone's mouth, like i could HEAR that white noise.

weirdly enough, for an abrupt ending that sucks ass, it's still somehow as satisfying as it could've been for smth that got cut. cuz like, they both got the endings that they deserve: the damn pushover of an MC at least gets to watch their roles get flipped where ML is the one who feels embarrassed while MC does NOT gaf, and ML doesn't even get to feel satisfied in messing w MC cuz he confessed to everything LMAOO. like, at least MC didn't get forced into a rushed relationship the way this seemed to be going.

tbh, the way he repeats that hollow mountain is dead with the name in quotes, lowkey is making me think they did a cop out and bi gwang just broke the Hollow Mountain mask, and killed his persona but let the dude live. which, imo, is actually preferable, bc im all for the āfriendship is magicā trope, tbh

can someone spoil to me what happens to the rest of idris' knights and what was up with the prince's and idris' hinted childhood friendship? bc i cannot read anymore of this (i stopped at the end of s1). mostly bc i'm reading the comments and apparently the ending doesn't feel satisfactory. while i can totally get that in real life, after so much abuse and seemingly never-ending tyranny, it's probably believable that the victims are just happy and relieved that the prince is dead and gone, regardless of whether or not he actually got dished any karmic justice for all that he's done against them. like revenge isnt even a priority anymore underneath longterm conditions of severe abuse- you just want nothing to do with them atp. but i personally cannot read that type of ending after reading that entire first season of just plain (and pretty explicit) abuse and humiliation against not only idris, but the rest of the order. like i just wanted to know what's up with the prince and idris' old friendship, and how the rest of the knights turned out (rip ivor, tho)

I finished reading this a long time ago so maybe some details are incorrect but hereāre what I remember: for the rest of Idrisā knights, Violette became the princessā knight at the end while the red-haired one became the leader of revolutionaries and they aimed to end aristocracy and build a republic, this hasnāt been addressed clearly in the ending so I guess the author will handle this issue in the side stories, the short-haired one become a medic, the rest are shattered and going on their own paths.
About the prince and Idrisā childhood friendship, the prince came to Idrisā village when he heard his knights got knocked down by a kid, the prince then convinced Idris to became his personal knight because of his outstanding swordsmanship and Idris agreed because he didnāt want the villagers to get attacked by the royal knights of the prince. Their relationship actually went well at first and they were good friends until Idris almost got assassinated by the princeās older brotherās guard, which had led the prince to become overprotective and obsessed towards Idris. He then poisoned his older brother and started isolating Idris from others with the reason of protecting Idris from external dangers. Their relationship reached its downfall when the prince Idris because he refused to follow his orders (something like invading Idrisā motherland aside his hometown). Still the prince proceed to make Idris kill all the villagers and manipulated him, making him become a war hero as he is in the beginning of the story
who fucking thought of this like wow what a fucking prompt and execution