
I actually... Don't dislike this guy as main lead? He's quite similar to her, in attitude and intelligence. He's close in age to her (middle ground between her original and current ages) while not being as childish as would be expected for someone his age, his mental age puts him in a better position than any other options I can think of. He's rude, but so is she, and he has potential for growth since he's still young. In the original timeline he was a jerk, but her cousin was too and a shift in his upbringing is already starting to make a difference. It's not unthinkable. They can jave an interesting dynamic.

You are not seeing the red flags. Their flashback wasn't cute. It was a red flag. You can see the signals that soon already. She started crying, he thought he was hurting her and should stop, AND YET HE KEPT GOING. He's always showed great potential for abuse. He holds his own desires about her wellbeing. Every time. And he kept doing in increasingly abusive ways. He'd push a little, saw she took it, and the pushed more. It's manual starting of a toxic dynamic.
And you can see the end of that slippery slope here in his current thoughts. He hurts her because he knows he'll face no consecuences. He hurts her to weaken her so she won't leave him. He hurts her because he likes her hurt and dependent on him. He likes her beaten down, and he did back then already. He liked her because she was hurt. He wanted her and took advantage of her being in the low.
He always have, and always will want her more than he loves her.

Exactly, in even when she was doing it with ML she was asking if was done. I ki da interpreted that scene as a demonstration of how she needs just kept getting neglected. No new clothes, or even underwear but would get her ex-husband everything new and what ever he desired. That intimate scene with the fl and ml felt key for her to start to realize she needs to start to think about her more than what she realized. Her thoughts in the end of the chapter emphasized that.

But I don't see it that way.
The whole flashback is about him holding his own desires above her wellbeing. Even in their first time there was the red flag of him not stopping after she started crying (we read him hating himself for it, but HE. STILL. KEEPS. DOING IT). I think that's actually the point. That even at his sweetest he was still greedy and selfish. He wanted her more than he loved her. Everyone says that they don't get how he could change so much... But there we have the seed of everything. She endured because she loved him, but it was still a red flag. She's naturally self-sacrificing... And he learnt that he could be as selfish as he wanted and she'd take it. And he ran with that.

I want to slap this comment to those people saying that Taeha is only after her body when they did the boombayah. They read the part (where he was so into the deed but still controlled himself when she said wait/stop) with their eyes closed. And take note, that man was starved for months.
Even old Minshît can't compare to Taeha. ╮(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)╭

There's a little mistake in the translation. Devran isn't worried about his little brother, he's worried about his little SISTER.
Also, the fact about Yuder being unable to pass laws regarding second gender isn't as much because of being an omega, it's about him being a commoner without connections. Remember Kishiar is the emperor's brother, and the highest ranking in this sociaty along woth the other four dukes. He has political power that Yuder completely lacks. In this timeline both the emperor and his closest person are on the right side, while in the other timeline the one in charge was the current heir (who let's say doesn't care as much about his people)

Such amazing art, such utter devotion...
Also, did you guys realize they made a blood oath? As in, both of them bled to shake on it. While Azz burnt his eye, Iruma (previously taking of his gloves) drove his own nails through the skin of his hand, they where both bleeding in that color page.
Not the same level, of course, but Azz's was in order to prove the famiglia his loyalty (something to show), and Iruma's was to andwer that devotion taking responsability for it as well (not for others to see, since they probably thought it was Azz's blood, but for Azz so he'd see he was just as serious at taking him back). And there was water dripping of Azz's face, so he probably dunked watr on him to put off the fire off camera.
They're adorable together. ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
And then my brain piped in with... Iruma dissappearing... As in, like the previous demon king... Becoming king and going MIA as well one day... And he's a human so... He may last decades, but not centuries like demons do. So they'd think he's still alive a couple hundred years later as is nornal for demons and keep looking for him, but he'd be gone in another way already.
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theyre the cutest trio, i say to myself with joy. i was then shot 57 times.