
nah you are right, their romance is so forced and unnecessary, that grandpa could stay by his side even without them (tess and art) being in romance relationship, just like that human princess being friend with him tho in the story she's hard to approach. the story about tess also looks like a story made by children lol, tf author thinking when giving her power alongside art to make her op, there are so many better characters to power up than her. i know for some people this is still better than harem, but to me both are worse. author really wants art to have a girlfriend and defeat the ending boss with her in the future story lol.

this is why i somehow prefer solo leveling, the romance is always nowhere to be seen, only in side chapters. i dont get the hype about this manhwa being better than solev as everyone said it to be...
in there seinen mc being seinen while here seinen mc being shounen, like no way bro reincarnated and get his past life memories and fall in love with a 4/5 years old girl, or at least that's how they met tho they become close after join the academy but author really tied them up...

so many characters to protect and loves yet they choose tess lmao, the way author forcing him to give that plant core to tess just bcs they have the same magic type is stupid, they could just make his sister also has plant magic but they still do it for the sake of romance, for the sake of grown ass adult to have a relationship with a toddler

and as i said earlier, i like solev romance bcs it's only it side chapters, so for those who wants to see the romance can just read that, and glad the author didnt ruin the main chapter by focusing in hae in like some author do. if i want to read a romance i wont bother to read action manhwa lol, im here for the action not for romance, the way admin make art and tess together and show us "no girl characters is going to be Arthur's partner if it's not tess" it's crazy. i was speed running the story last week, but on early chapters i already know author really trying so hard to put so many girl for art but it's so obvious only tess author made art interested for. like, why tess when there's jasmine? she's a better girl, age shouldnt be a problem since art is way more older originally and im sure he also gonna reveal this other than his own family.
PLEASE DONT HATE ME FOR THIS BUT .....
I don't find any chemistry for Tess and Art or Romance was just really unnecessary. The Plot is already good and he could have the girls crushes on him but to have romance with Tess is just nahh.