
I love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love the FL!!!!!!!
A fighter in a dress?! YES PLEASE!!! I love that they don't have to dress "masculine"/"gender neutral" or in the basic combat outfit and can still be better than majority in a fucking dress! A fancy one too! A feminine, fashionable AND strong FL? YES YES YES

I kinda like the CP as the ML. Sure he was horrible to her and even got a fucking lover in the 1st TL, but in the end it was FL's behavior that drove him away. And no it was not a "I'm actually kind but people misunderstand me" or anything. FL, in the 1st timeline, was truly evil. She would abuse people (workers and all), and even attempt to kill people. Even though we know that most of her actions were due to her being poisoned and drugged, as well as being manipulated by that nanny, I don't think the CP knew that. So he just saw her as an evil noblewoman who would use her status to do evil and oppress people.
As for the FL, I like how she wasn't made into being a super nice and good person. She's still kinda villainous-like, just not completely evil. I'm guessing this is how she would have turned out without her nanny and the drug's influence.

Let's be real. Orthez has the best mindset in this manhwa. It might be due to her upbringing but I love her confidence. I love the way she thinks. If she was forced to be a mistress like Igraine, then she would rather live spectacularly than live in pity and wallow in the sadness of life.
I also love how Orthez mentioned that the commoners would not find Igraine to be very pitiful because of her jewels and etc.
Also, Igraine wasn't completely unlucky. Despite being an orphan with a father of no status, she was raised by the family closest to the lord. She had the opportunity to mingle with people who were out of her social status otherwise.

So I came to reread a couple chs (initially came to reread the mizusawa vs fujioka high where Chihaya won against Arata but then also reread the last few chs). Ngl I was soooo happy Chihaya chose Taichi.
I've read this manga from a longggg ago. Before season 3 was even released (but probably after season 2). I started with the manga, and with how it was initially, it definitely looked like Arata was endgame so I cheered from him. However, as I continued reading I couldn't help but feel bad for Taichi, and it worsened after I watched the anime along with reading the manga. To the point, that even though it seemed as though Arata would be endgame, I still cheered for Taichi. Heck when I initially read this, there was someone who even said that Arata would be end game and he knows japanese blah blah blah (this was long ago so obviously that guy made it up.) I stopped for a while in the Queens and Kings match near the end, waiting for it to end but couldn't bear to read it because I feared
1. Chihaya would choose Arata and
2. Chihaya would lose against Shinobu.
But I'm glad I gathered the courage to continue reading once it was completed and you have no idea how happy I was. Especially when Chihaya confessed to Taichi and they became a couple. The two are legit the perfect couple in my eyes
Rereading it after so many years made me realize that FL's so kind and understanding.
Whether it be when she was younger and waited patiently for ML to explain the reason behind gifting her the whiskers or whether it be now, when she's grown up and respected ML's choice of not showing his face by not looking at it even when she had the chance to (when ML protected and saved her from that crazy guy, ML's paperbag fell out and he even fainted. If she wanted to, if she had let curiosity win over then she could have peeked at ML's face. Yet she didn't. The first time she saw it was accidentally as it was right in front of her (when his identity is revealed))