I'm sorry but asking someone for a favor and that favor is SPEAKING WITH GOD is so wild to me
I’m glad I was not the only one thinking that cause whatever even was that ?
Honestly I can't blame Kael; everyone is talking about how Hes has done so much for her revenge in Kael's name, but Kael just wants to move on with his life, and that's completely valid! Hes is so focused on getting revenge that just from hearing Kael say Diana didn't need to apologize anymore, she got pissed-- but isn't it Kael's call if he accepts the apology or not?? He was the one wronged, so whether he truly accepts the apology or just says that to shut Diana up, it's his choice and his choice alone. You CAN'T be the judge in his stead.
Hestia is way too obsessed with this; she shouldn't let her whole life revolve around 2 shitty people. Just bc she spent so long planning this whole scheme doesn't mean Kael should sit there and let her have at it when it's obviously becoming unhealthy. He doesn’t even need the revenge she says is for him!! He has said that multiple times atp!! Girl go on a honeymoon with your man and try to find joy in other places in life ur brain needs a vacation
Exactly!! He just want to move on and not just with his life he wants Hestia to be happy with him. He wants her to not be so hung up with revenge anymore and that's completely valid because revenge isn't the perfect solution but just moving on with your lives is. Even though Hestias obsession with getting revenge is valid she needs to learn to live her own life for herself not just taking revenge for her bias
The worst part is Hestia hears this - the man of her dreams saying he just wants to be happy with her instead of focusing on shitty people - and thinks it means that Kael has gone back to square 1 and now cares about Diana she's so up in her own head with this obsession that anything other than that feels like betrayal to her, even the most well-intentioned stuff
I was so surprised they were just straight up brothers for reals. Usually they do a cop-out incest with stepbrothers, but this?? Hagi-sensei just went full ballistic huh
The gap moe here is *chef's kiss* I'm so weak for cutesy MLs...
BITCH WHY WOULD YOU SCREAM THAT WHEN YOUR HUSBAND IS LITERALLY BY THE DOOR OUTSIDE THAT ROOM I want that girl DESTROYED kael u better up your cussing game
This ends on such a weird note, with so many loose ends that it's super unfulfilling. I was all for the yearning between the FL and the ML, and I think it's a great set up as it can give a lot of juicy drama, but so much of it just ended up.... bland, and lifeless.
We don't see what happened to Alice, she never gets ousted for *paying a grup of men to rape Karen*, Karen also wants to have her first time immediately after getting rescued by Hansel (after being jumped by the previously mentioned group of men), they never show the Prince thinking things over after the big confrontation, Hansel is (plot twist!) shown to be a prince 2 pages before the end of the manga– and to top it all of, they *chose* to make the big misunderstanding between the prince and Karen to be about her cheating on him! Why would you choose to do that when she *did* cheat on him?!?
Like, I know she was never emotionally invested in the prince, so I don't want to 100% condemn her for it, but the prince was shown to be in love with her until he thought she had cheated on him-- so this confrontation sucks now because, hey, it's not that she has been cheating on you multiple times! She cheated only *once*! And that's because, differently from you, she's never liked you all that much in the first place!!! they could've just gone the usual "framed for poisoning the ogFL (Alice in this case)" trope, or just have it so that Karen *didn't* cheat on the prince after nearly being raped--- both would've been fine options!! Just don't have the misunderstanding be about cheating when she did cheat, it just feels... bad
The characters themselves aren't all there either tbh. Karen is not the worst I've seen from otome isekai (or rofan in general) but she's definitely your usual case of "she doesn't really do nothing, things just happen to her "-- Alice was more proactive than her. Then, there's the prince, who did like Karen before the rumors starting circulating (which I do appreciate) but also could only think with his dick, apparently, because not only was he icky with Karen (saying "finally you're not resisting?" big yikes) but also he could not be bothered to use his brain and either confront Karen about the rumors or ask Hansel to check if they were true, even after he had been gullible enough to believe such level of hearsay. Hansel is... well. He's hot, I guess. I like the eyebags, since they're not usual in MLs. He's your usual non-communicative type of ML that decides he will do something for the FL's wellbeing and then just not tell her about it and just let their relationship strain instead-- which I'm not a fan of, but alas, it's the least worrying part of this whole shtick. I kinda wish they, uh, didn't mention his skin color in such an underhanded way?? Like if ur gonna use racism as a plot point don't skim through that shit like that, damn.
That being said! I did love the tension and yearning between the Karen and Hansel. The "love that cannot be" is always a juicy feast, especially when they are this close (and when Hansel is so close to the Prince too). And the art was also great! The sex was pretty ok for a series that seemed to devout to it's plot– as underexecuted as it may have been.
And, uh, that's about all I can praise, tbh.
It's still a fun read! But you can skim 90% barely reading the dialogues and you will have pretty much the complete experience. This is a "don't look at anything twice and it'll be fine" kind of situation.
When Arthur said the 3 of them had "it", I think it meant the three of them possess some kind of otherworldly power; his power probably has something to do with "reading someone's heart" (as mentioned by Louis), Amelia's is being able to remember her previous lives, and Louis – while a lot of people seem to guess he is Amelia's original lover – I would really like to guess has some other power, maybe related to seeing someone's memories and/or messing with them. He obviously knows her, but they haven't ever met (Amelia mentions having never seen someone quite like him in all of her lives), so he's probably become some weirdo stalker (rip homegirl) in this lifetime after catching a random glimpse of her OR he somehow tampered with her memories. If he did tamper with her memories, that means he *has been* tampering with them, and he could be messing with them so that Amelia think's everything will end in tragedy even if they never did – this way she will willingly stay away from William.
He seems wayyy too invested in her – seeing as he planned this whole engagement just to get to her – for him to be someone who's known Amelia for multiple reincarnations and just now has decided to try to get her. So I think it makes more sense to not have him as another "reincarnating" character. If he had been the one orchestrating everything in all of ther lives to have Amelia and William end miserable, he would've shown himself a little earlier than this, me thinks??? Since it's been a long time.
But, on a side – but not completely unrelated – note, Amelia says it has been exactly 100 years since their first lives... but that's not really a long time, considering the average human lifespan? From the flashbacks, she has lived at least 6 other lives-- which would mean she has been barely hitting 16 every time before inevitably dying. Which is, sure, plausible in this time-frame, but also just kinda weird bc it means she has never really been an adult, despite her flashbacs seemingly being staged as having Amelia and William meet in wildly different circumstances each time. But that's more of a nitpick than anything.
Anyways, I just hope William really is Elliot, bc it just doesn't really make a lot of sense, narratively speaking, to get everyone invested in this guy only to have him be a fake. If that were the case, there should've been more foreshadowing to point to this– but to not have nothing substantial 12 chapters in is a huuuge gamble on the author's part.
That is, uh, definetely one way to translate that title,,, I guess,,,,,,
What is even going on atp