
this manhwa was too good. it made me feel too much and i went on an emotional rollercoaster. i cannot describe how pissed and frustrated i am about the cultural and overall gender discrimination though (and let's not talk about that monk, i already mentally assassinated him a couple times), it hit too close to home.
bless the author for the epilogue and side stories though <3 i got the fluff i didn't know i needed to recover from all that.

i honestly thought this was a very intriguing story and the mystery component kept me attentive as it's one of the plot-twist kind you don't quite see coming. overall hint: its one of those works of writing where it's a full cycle of angst. ending is bittersweet, but i think it was necessary for it to be a sensible ending, with a bit of realism to conclude yk?
seeing the comment below about the relationships, well i generally only read queer works so i clicked into this story, but idk the heterosexual parts didn't affect me too much since i knew it wasn't a huge contributor or main focus of the story (thus the stereotypical events also didn't bother me too much). i'm not a huge romance person in the first place though (i considered it maybe the secondary/tertiary genre of this story?) so take it with a grain of salt.
i feel like recently the conversations sound less mature (?) like about pluton going after kayden, i think jiwoo's learned enough about the awakener world and kayden's status that he shouldn't be so shocket atp?? he's literally been in so many life-threatening scenarios
I think he was just surprised at the thought of one of them dying since pluton has been with them for a while and he got used to him so the thought of him killing kayden or vice versa was just a shock
He knew but he never really thought it was a fight to death. Hes been in so many duels but none of them are actually like fight to death and afterwards, most of them became his friends. Duel in Jiwoo's head is just a way to showcase how much hes gotten stronger and to learn.