i agree with youuu omgg its so wild to me that she didnt even think of joining the rebels at all! i mean i can appreciate that she wants a life after being alive for 2 decades not belonging to herself. i also understand why she does what she does in the agency being small feats of repentance for herself. i can understand that all of her wants are valid as well.
BUT shes always angry about injustices when solving a case and then....turn around and protect the emperor in the moment of truth??? the emperor whos basically an empty husk of a title, bc all thr real powers are in her dad's faction, and the other power is with the noble class, who her dads faction was using the emperor as a puppet against, before the emperor 'bluffs' his way out and starts bullshitting??? her moral struggle in that part is sooooooo nonexistent. like....you can feel its so made up bc the author has no idea how to handle internal conflict like this which is a shame cause i got hooked to FL very quickly just for the ending to be....that
I'm only on chapter 43, but it's so infuriating. I don't know what will happen in the next chapters, but for now I don't see anything badass about this MC. She spent years killing innocents, burning people and burying them alive even if they were children because the emperor wanted it, but when it comes to punishing the real villains, she backs down. All her justifications are terrible; she says it was because of the emperor she served, her father who mistreated her, or because she's afraid of what the powerful might do if she acts, but the story always implies that she's stronger than everyone else, even if they were orders she followed them because she wanted to. She could very well have killed the emperor and ended it all, she could have spent those 10 years that she only helped aristocrats, hunting down the nobles who committed the crimes. Any of those things would have prevented far more people from dying than doing nothing. Ultimately, she's not a strong character who attacks the powerful so that the weak don't suffer; she's just a coward, afraid that her peace will be disturbed, and as the strongest character in the plot, that sucks. Regardless, if you look at the body count, she killed more innocent people than she punished criminals.