New business + brother gifted him the car so ofc it doesn’t count = started business from nothing lol
Spoiler if just starting, but ending rushed the issues not addressed
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They didn’t really cover his removing karayn from his list of targets, the origin of the system windows, reasoning why his OG life even mattered to the plot expect for that he could think past his age, the cloaked person said he would return back to his OG life, and so is he just preventing death by not having a OG story ending? they didn’t cover why extending the ending or bypassing the ending decided to work even though he picked routes, why his black haired friend wasn’t in a route or target with him, where did the story come from, and why him in this world? why he was the one with stats, and why Ilya could normally not see the system windows even when he transferred mana before or when he stopped doing it, etc.
I feel like they set us up with questions and then decided to just bypass a lot of them or make them not matter.
The magician fortune teller told him to not forget his name and ask who he is and that never was addressed afterwards.
Don’t get me wrong the dynamic is cute and I liked the ride overall and like that they had humor and all——
but it really wouldn’t have been difficult to give a reasoning like when he got hit by a car he held the book and the magician was someone from his life giving him another chance to decide his fate and believe that love and other goals were part of his life, like you choose your own destiny not the other way around.
I even thought legit he would go back to the real world in hospital bed and Ilya would be there as like his friend who confessed to him and mc rejected bc he was scared of that route and then they become a couple, something like that.
I like how cute the ending was too but the unanswered questions and plot build ups that were ignored (even despite my own reasoning), bother me a bit from enjoying it more
I feel the same it was cute bit wayyy to rushed and too many plotholes
That last chapter took a dark turn, def went left at romance/college-life-turned-survival-game to mobster x student simulation in a way I didn’t expect. I think it’s refreshing but the two plots don’t seem to mesh together in a way that feels natural quite yet. Though it IS a game so that may be it. Interested ti see what happens next… though maybe with a few less severed limbs pls
My prediction is that he is not the one that put the spikes into the bird, but loves the bird and someone very sociopath (who enjoys seeing the things that the guy likes to suffer) is doing it—bc nailing a pet bird does not read as sadism to me, it reads as disturbed and I doubt the tone of the story will set him up to be that kind of person. I believe he is afraid that by liking someone (like he did the bird) that that a third party person will by extension cause harm to them just to screw with him or torture his emotions, or to punish him. I will say if it was a dog or cat and not a bird, y’all would be putting out hit contracts on him, so it’s likely he’s not the torturer of the bird either way
I hope your predictions are true!!!
…then proceeds to make fancy dessert lol
Lucky I love cute desserts
He’s going to be so broken after saying that, not going to be able to stand for days, I can feel it. Famous last words bro, it was nice knowing you
Lmaoooo
I think it will "So this is what s3x feels like" or "What have I done?"
It’s sad, that in addition to Mo getting devastated after he was fired, and how it also showed that he wasn’t understanding academics to feel that he could go down that path instead so I really felt for his anger and fear and hurt, especially at a time when he was actually kind of enjoying himself and acting his age, only to realize that doing so put his job at risk—poor Mo ( T﹏T )
I didn’t expect to be crying before bed, but here I am… this reminded me too much of losing my fur baby 4 years ago, who we had to decide to put down due to the high level of pain and loss of function she was experiencing. I got to the point where I saw I was on,h keeping her going for myself, because I loved her so much. This chapter really hit me hard.
Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly binged this and enjoyed the humor! But the prince after-chapter sits different with me. Like basically Ibelin just goes with the only option left that’s into her, never pursuing anyone, never showing character development or even lack thereof. It was such an important moment that I wanted to see just a glimmer more of. Ibelin is a consort (aka wife) and not empress (can rule) and seems like she’s pregnant and has a whole palave it wounded like, but the prince is like laughing about latte making fun of the rabbit for some reason, like it broke his reality and gravity that surrounded Ibelin and its like he never wore off the spell of Ibelin and they exist in a polite relationship? I hope not but idk—It would have been nice if Ibelin learned to love or try to connect with others—or at least expand on the scene after latte confronted her about the whole “protagonist” thing instead of a cut-forward that she was okay with her life being only a consort (wife) instead of ruling empress. Like was she still full of the feelings of jealousy and hate or did she overcome them to live her life? We don’t get that closure. The prince is never expanded on as a character, which makes sense to some degree as the webcomic is about turning expectations and tropes on its head. And yes, he is almost just as cookie-cutter as Ibelin, existing in the story without much depth, but the scene where he remembers the rabbit somehow broke my heart, like he is still searching for something real and wondering if he was just in love with an “other-worldly being” or not. I feel like everyone got an after story and their uncle except for them, good or bad.
In some ways it’s poetic because in some ways, Ibelin went from being the one character Latte’s entertainment and life orbited around, until Latte became her own protagonist and Ibelin became the minor character in Latte’s story since Latte expanded on her life as more than a spectator of another's, and accepted the world she lived in as reality than a story she was reading and spectator of. I truly see the poetry, but somehow I feel at least the prince deserved as smidge more like Kenneth?
I thought something similar when reading it the first and second time, your analysis is so good. Ibelin becoming a side character in Latte’s life instead of taking ownership of her own life and becoming a genuine protagonist…that’s gold. I understood even from the side characters when the prince was the magic mirror and Ibelin the evil queen from Snow White that the author was saying they suited each other because of their lack of depth and vanity. Everything was always handed to them, the prince had OP skills with a sword (that we never seen by the way), and god-tier looks, while Ibelin never had to experience hardship for too long before someone swooped in to save her. However, Arwin’s life was full of hardships and the only thing given him was OP magic affinity/skill, while Kenneth was a duke who had to silently suffer from all those stalkers. I was holding out hope to discover Arwin’s parents or any relatives out there, and now that I’m thinking I would’ve liked to see what life was like in Kenneth’s duchy, and what happened that he became a duke so young? I don’t think it was a bad thing that the princess got engrossed in being and author, but I thought she would’ve been a good couple with Kenneth in the main story…she’s so kind and compassionate that I think she’d be understanding of his fear of women. And someone else mentioned awhile back how Latte and the crown prince had developed a good, lighthearted relationship, but it was destroyed when he no longer had a reason to be forced to remember her existence since he got Ibelin and they were no longer “friends.” If not a redemption arc then at least a self-discovery arc for the crown prince and Ibelin would’ve gone a long way. Lastly, why’d we have to miss the pregnancy and parenting of the MLs, I wanted to see how often Arwin threatened to destroy the world when she had morning sickness or if he ever had moments when he realized his child would have parents, even grandparents unlike him.