I think that’s the point, no? The grandmas weren’t asking MC to forgive her, just to give her an end where she wasn’t alone with no one who understood her.
People in deep holes sometimes feel no choice but to keep digging. Anita’s given up too much and hurt too much- she can’t forgive herself enough to stop, even if she knows it might be wrong. It’s the same from her POV as it is from Regina’s- is Anita just supposed to forget about the king betraying her, just because he’s dead now? When his descendants live in the castle and rule the kingdom built on the corpses of her family?
Regina was able to return in time because right before she died, Anita felt bad for her. In the timeline that nothing stopped her and she won, she stood above Regina’s body (a daughter of ‘that man’) and felt guilty, like they weren’t so different. The Grandmas were more or less just asking Regina to do the same. Rather than being about right or wrong or how much payback to give, it’s about understanding. No matter what, Anita will die because her heart is breaking.
I’m actually really interested to see if ‘god’ plays a bigger role here, seeing as how it was some holy decree that prompted the first king to massacre the witches in the beginning.
I fully agree with ur comment @Sowa. The story has so much more depth to it than what's presented. It's supposed to make us feel complicated and contradicting emotions. The two girls are 2 side of the same coin. The story is just kind of sprinkled with romance as its gag part but it devles more about the complexity of human emotions and how it reflects our life choices, this story takes that to its extremes which goes beyond normal understanding. I'm more fond of the unsaid plots playing along the story, even more than their lil romance lol.
When Anita was winning no one was there to stop her from killing innocent people, but now that she’s losing people are supposed to take in her back story and consider what happened to her? And it’s not even just Anita that’s supposed to be forgiven but also the king that killed her people and stole her power? Author has lost their mind.