Letting this marinate, because I cannot deal with another chapter of characters moving from one room to another and exchanging pleasantries.
This was great (obviously ), but I literally can't tell if the younger prince was actually just that good and charming, or if just giving the ml any other face than the "seme smug thin eyes" makes him million times more approachable and unique than the typical love interest.
Good art, fairly interesting story, but for the love of god out some meat on those bones.
Besttttt fucking catharsis ever 100/10. I love how their relationship developed. Instantly losing his shit after clearing the seventh dungeon is exactly what was needed to make Hyeon seem genuine.
Girl don't bring heavy shit into your story unless you're ready for heavy consequences?? He regularly does that to his own brother and his consequence for it is.... Not being able to do that anymore??? This doesn't leave me thinking how kind our protags are, but about what fucked up shit he'll do to the next omega he gets his hands on.
I love how Cale's particular combination of neuroses makes him think that he's somehow fucking the prince over by dumping all the information on him, instead of what it actually is: A random noble doing all the investigation before freely giving it over to the prince, who's job it is to actually do something about it. Bro thinks he's master manipulator, when he's the manipulation is "here's some problems you need to know about, that you didn't know about"
Say what you want about the current state of the world, but it truly is the era of yuri. No longer are we doomed to tragic incest-ridden oneshots.
Idk, I'm not satisfied with his character development just yet. It's good that he knows not to neglect her now, but the core of the problem hasn't been resolved: he doesn't see her as a person, he sees her as a girl. The reason why he treated the princess kindly is because he never saw her as a girl in the first place. He has now learned, that girls won't like him if he ignores them, but he still doesn't see her as the same kind of being as his friends. He doesn't tell her the truth, he doesn't just straight up admit what he did wrong and why.
It's why her studying abroad is such a big deal to him. A friend like the princess can follow whatever path she chooses, but if his fiance leaves him, it means he failed, because she's a girl he's in love with. He was taught from a young age, that the way you treat girls it's different and that is what separated them in the first place. His awkwardness around what girls like, his feigned stoicism and endless avoidance of anything sincere or embarrassing IS the reason why she doesn't know or love him.
Many things to say like, I love how we got this chapter, the new haircut suits them wonderfully, I love how much he smiles now, but most importantly, watching them makes me really really wish I was married already. Oh myyyyy goooooood. Why am I not waking up to someone I love everyday already oh my goooooooood. AAARGHHH
THE ART IS SO PEAK. HOW MANY COMMENTS ABOUT HOW PEAK THIS MANHWA IS HAVE I LEFT ON HERE. NOT ENOUGH. I LOVE THE UNIQUE FACES! I LOVE HOW YOU CAN SEE LYSBET'S DETERIORATING HEALTH! I LOVE HOW THE MAGICIAN IS ALLOWED TO LOOK OLD AND NOT LIKE AN AIR-BRUSHED ANIME MILF!!!!! THE KIDS ARE SO CUTE!!! THE BACKGROUND CHARACTERS DON'T LOOK GENERIC AT ALL!!!!! THE EXPRESSIONS ARE FULL OF DEPTH AND CHARM!!!!!!!!!!!