ending

this could have had soo much potential but ended as a disappointment with many unfinished plots and worldbuilding.

mc is actually a noble, but his family was killed by the empire (?) and he was the only survivor. thus he turned being a knight with only one goal in mind: to survive, and that's why he goes along with what ml does. he doesn't fall in love with ml as quickly as others, but rather sees it as a relationship of convenience (again, survival). yes, mc does have his kid and he looks like ml. they love (???) each other, ig.

worldbuilding? you'll get little to none in this as the world feels so dead (lol). they could have done so much with the zombies and ghouls and "dark evil energy" but they brush past it after the plotline ends, like every other future plotline. mc being a noble is brushed off as ml digging into his past instead of mc going back to his homeland like he wanted. (warning: incest) schuman is in love with his half brother, thinking if he's rich then his brother will love him back (or something? it's very vague), and that's why he likes money.

idk, the premise was interesting, but these characters were so washed out they didn't even feel like main characters. hell, even senna and belle had a better background lore than everyone else. (warning: SA/r) the novel goes into more detail about them (the time where mc goes into belle's memories, it was a lot more brutal than shown with many more instigators if that makes sense, thus senna asking "who's the father?") and why her revenge was so important. but alas that plotline died. (eta: i was wondering why senna looked so young and that's bc he was young. belle was around ~15 so he could be the same or even younger, and that makes their story all the more terrible.)

tl;dr this was a letdown.