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never trusted or believed in iana, I was isaac back. He and fl were just so good together. PLEASE. Resurrect him somehow. Make him the ML.

I finished the entire manga in 1 day! I haven't seen the anime at all, knowing that s2 sucks, i figured i won't put myself through it at all. I just have some thoughts I need to put to page about this:

this was so good! This was a tightly written story. Reading it all in one go, its obvious the writer had a cohesive vision they stuck to for each chapter. The fight at the capital could've been a bit longer, but the story doesn't rush or drag at any point. Especially since author burnout has given us so many terrible, rushed or straight up nonsensical endings (bleach, mha, jjk to name a few). There is a bit of deus ex machina going on, coz an off-screen character, smee, is to thank for their freedom. They got incredibly lucky in obtaining the pen, so all 3 MCs had the info needed before they ever left. Also, the completely off-screen prison break meant showing a lot less of the struggles that actually happened, and would've given norman a lot more depth so reader's would have sympathy for him, and would want him to be saved in the last arc.

I'm not a fan of unnecessary heartache unless it makes sense for the story, so yuugo and lucas makes sense. But the mcs managing to save most of the kids with their smarts also makes sense. Also isabella is a decent example of redemption done right. When the kids managed to show her her another way, she did start doing what she could within her means to gain freedom.

I usually am not a fan of white knight, angelic MCs that refuse to kill, must always do what's right no matter what the cost, but Emma does it well. She will kill, but she will hesitate. And when she suggests doing the right thing, it will be because she has at least a viable alternate worth pursuing. Her bid to save peter ratri irked me though, and her 14-yr old's talk no jutsu convincing ancient demons does require some suspension of belief. But she is a fantastic MC. She was on board with killing all the upper brass the kept the farms going, so she supported Norman, but was against the mass killings which she had a way of preventing.

The end was so bittersweet, coz the emma that wanted to be free and smile no longer exists. But she is there, she is smiling, and loving her family all the same. That is fantastic. Overall 9.8/10

what seasoned war general would just wander off in the middle of a battle when she knows there are dark magicians creating summoning circles around? Man, authors would do anything nonsensical to make FLs damsels in distress and have MLs save them. WHAT EXPERIENCED LEADER WOULD START THINKING OF FEELINGS AND CONTRACTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EFFING BATTLE? Are we to assume that Ashya, the one who led the dwindling troops to victory, where the rest of her family perished, would make the asinine decision to start playing coy and then just start running around like a headless chicken in the middle of the battle?? The FL was so strong, smart and awesome until this point. Istg my eyes rolled so hard at this they're still spinning.

but i sure would love to see the main characters win at something. They just keep losing to the villains. I do love to see how everyone is competent and multi-dimensional. Even the villains are getting shown to be human.

a million times better if they didn't do the quasi-pseudo adopted sibling to lovers thing. Just him having stayed at the FL's house as a rescued child and a playmate would've been just fine

how they handled melisse. She was also created by the scumbags around her, and that she found some freedom and redemption is great.

He got scratched by a boar once, so she's putty now, willing to forgive him and go back to that place of horrors. When she's had the most terrible life so far, at the hands of him and his sister, with them treating her as their personal punching bag for YEARS. And this is all it took for you to forgive him? Nah. She suffered so much even after leaving, as a lonely pregnant woman who was robbed and who's saviour then promptly passed away.

And, just to compare, the ML's troubles were 'i know my sister is actually just my half sister, so I'm going to let her abuse and terrorise her maid, and i'll just pressure the helpless maid to sleep with me on the down low'. Wow, moving stuff. No wonder the FL just had to forgive him, poor baby that he is, given that he's had 1 trouble in his life.

from his behaviour it seems like the MC doesn't even like the ML, tolerates him at best.

hope they don't somehow spin this into 'FL was right to ignore his thoughts on the matter, coz you're supposed to forgive others no matter what the offense'. I've seen this happen to too many mangas, where no matter who hurt the main characters, no matter how terribly, the MCs just up and forgive them with no consequences. If they take this route again, to ignore the ML's feelings and issues with his brother for a forced reconciliation, where they somehow give the FL and brother the moral high ground and chastise the ML for holding his grudge, that'll be the ruin of this deep and insightful storyline.
I'm really hoping the FL has to prove herself to ML to win his trust back, by showing unwavering loyalty, rather than showing the ML bending over backwards to stay with her.

if they wanted to change the original story from the novel to make rize more sympathetic to the readers, they should've incorporated her pov and turmoil from the beginning. But no, they show that she very much leans into her role, even knowing that the people possessing Edith are real people who die due to her actions. She does them anyway, and happily.

But no, they choose to give her flashbacks in the last act of the story. I assume its because in the novel rize pretty much got off scot-free even after edith found out she had gotten many other ediths killed, so they are trying to justify the inaction on edith's part by saying rize is also worthy of sympathy. I'm guessing that's also why edith's torture and helplessness is non-existent. And the fulfillment of the last condition is glossed over.

They thought the weak link in the story was the part where rize not getting justly punished was not justified properly in the novel, so they try to do a last minute patchwork fix to be able to justify that. When they should've been fixing up the part that rize gets properly punished for all the crimes we've seen her commit as the villain of the story.