
The story started implausibly funny, energetic with lots of lovable characters and throughout the theme was always about friendship and collaboration. All the fights and different skills and aptitudes displayed led us readers to expect the same type of op mc overcoming all storytelling that we're used to reading thus loosing sight about the original premise. Ending kept to the theme very well.

Yep. Totally believable that governor wants to punish with more of the same old same old. Plot is a joke fr.

He's in love with him. He doesn't have it in him to be cold and inventive with his punishments and he definitely doesn't want him to escape his control by giving him up. You call him "governor" but he is not the governor in this moment. He lost sight of that part of himself in this relationship a long time ago. (That was part of its appeal.)
All the same, I did hope for him to veer off this path even a little. Not looking forward to the coming chapters.
This arc is so long. Defeat that thing already! Why do authors like to drag these fights with op villains that no one can seemingly defeat ( after introducing really op characters that can defeat gods but not whatever they're fighting!) same with jjk & bds.