So hahhahahhaa here’s the thing. I’ve read the novel including the side stories. MTL btw. Spolier alerrtttttt
1. Yes, he def improves and truly loves her. He fights for her. Even when he hasn’t reached that 100% freedom from the author’s power, he’s really trying to see what’s happening. The author prevents him from seeing and understanding things but little by little he does then eventually loves her completely.
2. Side stories - he becomes so fearful of losing Edith. He becomes so jealous of any man who might try to covet Edith, even his own knights and servants. He threatened them that whoever goes to Edith’s office without his knowledge will be hung upside down. Being so fearful and jealous, while making love, he tries to imprint himself on her saying “no, i don’t want to let you go” and buries his face to her chest. Edith comforts him knowing he’s being anxious over nothing and they say i love you to each other.
3. Side stories - they have a son. They went back to Rudwick’s to visit so not really cutting off any communication there ;) they found it important to visit after the events of the main story. Cliff was also released from the power of the author and he was so sorry about all the things he did to Edith. Same goes to the Duke. Killeon and Edith’s son brings sunshine to the whole family after what they went through because of the author. Eventually, they have one more kid, a girl.
4. Killeon did say i love you to Edith. At first, Edith thought what he meant was her body so Killeon exploded saying he loves her, not her body then and carries her over his shoulder to their bedroom for some sexy time. Edith was blushing all the way because all of the servants were so surprised with Killeon.
Yeppppo those are just some of the spoilers.
Spoilers
From what I’ve read, the Reeze(ogfl) is actually the original author of the story. She became reeze and has actually lived through the og story a lot of times. That’s also why she’s very good at acting as reeze, since she’s loved her life so many times now. However, she got bored at some point, since everything was the same, so she started to drag in random souls and put them in Edith’s body. She still had full control of the story, but she created basically impossible conditions for her authority to weaken(almost trying to give each new Edith false hope basically)
Anyway, she’s an absolutely evil bitch that dragged in innocent souls to very painful deaths cause she was bored.
I summon the spoiler guy (/TДT)/