Albert isn't a bad person, but during the their fight with Demon king, he was aware of what was happening to Rei, he knew he was sacrificing Rei, but nevertheless choose to prioritize his revenge knowing he and everyone would end up ruining Rei.
At the end of the day, he could only afford to care for Rei after his revenge was settled, Rei wasn't his priority and Rei wasn't important enough to him at that time, not as important as revenge at least. But who could blame him? I mean, most in his shoes would choose revenge, even if it means breaking someone innocent in the process, but I still hate his guts for trying to make amends for it. If he choose to be ruthless with his revenge despite knowing the consequences of breaking someone else, he should have just been ruthless till the end. Half-baked guilt is always the cheapest, knowing he would have still chosen to do the same thing if he had to go through it again.
The friend/coworker advising mc to go for the "Hikaru Genji Plan", I've come across this term before, and I was creeped out by the meaning behind it. "Hikaru Genjin Plan" Basically means an adult raising a child for the purpose of grooming them into becoming their ideal lover/partner like what was noted in the story.
I'll skip mc and Suou issues, it's the coworker that's concerning, she needs to fix her brain... At least mc had the common sense to question his relationship with Suou. The coworker just kept convincing mc to get together with a kid he raised since the boy was 8...
Zigril might be really unpopular... most become his love rivals. No one chasing him, instead they chase his empress. Kay might just be a natural magnet, love rivals don't seem to mind him being the male empress with Zigril (a powerful lunatic of an Emperor) being his spouse, and they don't even mind that Kay has child he gave birth too. Most straight up just ask Kay to run away with them. I don't know if they're brave or stupid, but no one in their right mind would ask an Empress to run away with them especially with an Emperor like Zigril. What made them think that they could whisk away The Male Empress that Emperor tried so hard to scheme to marry and trap with a child? How can these characters be made so stupid just because of their attraction/love, can't they come up with a better excuse?
A incompetent father and brother, a cheating greedy husband and a foolish son... The Empress really just had the worst luck in men. Even if she's a formidable villain, there's a handicap of having all the men in her family drag her down. She deserves it anyways, how many innocent (illegitimate) children had she killed? She should have just done that to her husband, and become queen regent.
I love the male classmates that tries to protect mc in their own way, when they thought her fiance was abusing her, they tried to protect her. Her classmates understood the "limit" of teasing and it's difference with bullying, after realizing the situation isn't something to tease someone about, they quickly did the right thing. After all, they stood their grounds when they realize that there maybe some sort of abuse going on. Although, the physical abuse was a misunderstanding, they pointed out that there are different kinds of abuse physical, emotional and psychological that one could be subjected.
So I kinda forgot the imperial family, so I just read some spoilers to shake my memory.
Apparently, Ussis is after revenge. Ussis was the illegitimate child of the Olorrs. She was treated badly by them and she eventually ran away and met heir of Aust, the representative family of the South, they fell in love, got married happily and even had twins children. But the Emperor was obsessed with Ussis, he and the Olorrs joined hands and had her husband killed. The Olorrs made Ussis consort, and the emperor even GRACIOUSLY made her child with her husband the first prince... So yeah, Ussis is playing spoiled consort on purpose. I'm so happy that neither The Empress nor the Consort were actually competing for that trash Emperor.
Is this kind of plot popular or something...? I just want to read an isekai bl, but well, I gotta say, from parent like guardian to lovers is morally conflicting.
Also, The two brothers were probably being tsunderes. They mentioned something like think "think about yourself a little instead of us" amongst everything they said to mc. They sounded harsh, but they could have kept mooching off mc or used his kindness for something if they were real scums. Mc is the type that you can't cut off gentle, he would have kept giving if his brothers didn't leave him. Instead they left mc, maybe so he could finally live his own life. Also, I get, sometimes being related to monster makes you afraid of being one. The two brothers repeatedly heard that all their lives that they would become monsters too, but because their brother was there and he accepted them, who wouldn't want to free the one that loved them from a life full of burden?
yea i agree. its a biased point of view because ikumi is the narrator so it only shows how he was hurt from them "abandoning" him, but they probably saw him sacrificing himself over and over again just to raise them. It's harsh, but I understand where the two brothers come from. if this wasn't an isekai and went more of a "met someone who loved and cherished him in the original world" kind of plot i think we could have gotten more closure and reconciliation from the brothers and perhaps unpacked ikumi's own trauma and reason for being the way he is. but alas... he was shipped away to isekai land. I think there was a lot of potential for this to be a modern office worker romance plot with hurt/comfort, healing/salvation vibes.











Nathaniel's better off being divorced, free from politics and his family. In the first place, neither Nathaniel nor Allen had feelings for each other. Allen was using Nathaniel to get an heir, and Nathaniel used Allen to buy off his family's affection. It wasn't a healthy marriage, neither of them had attachments to each other beyond their goals.
Nathaniel was just forced to marry Allen because of his family, once he was branded defective, they abandoned him. Why should Nathaniel stay married with someone he was paired off for political purpose, even without Chris, I think getting divorce with Allen would have been the best choice for him. Chris being there makes the divorce easier, since he doesn't have to continue his part in their marriage. Allen wasn't a good husband anyways, so Nathaniel doesn't have to go around desperate for him.