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Yeah, I'm going to give a 3*. To be totally fair, it is a great concept. And if you read it without really thinking about anything to hard then I would imagine that it's a really great read as well. Unfortunately, I don't have that ability. There's quite a few issues that annoy me but these are the big ones that I just have to point out.First and foremost. Is everyone who's giving this 5* just sitting there pretending that the MC isn't 7-12 years old? Multiple times, especially early on (when it's the most egregious), it's expressed and hinted at how multiple guys find her to be very attractive. Often time, these guys were adults. Starting at age 8 she starts going to an armor shop and getting questionably reveling outfits and by age 12, it's straight up lingerie. The author insists that magic makes kids grow faster so she actually looks 2 or 3 years older..... like that somehow makes it ok. Idk, maybe it's just me, but that's just... no.The ranks and power levels are a mess and they don't make any sense. Also, they don't matter according to the author. Sometimes they do though, just not for the MC. Firstly the MC punches way about her level so you already have a distorted view of levels and power scaling. Then the people who are really "high level" are suppose to be rare, but those are the only people the MC interacts with so your sense of power in this world is totally skewed. To piggy back off this point. The nobility grow up and level up faster because they learn magic at an early age. This is a well known fact by virtually everyone. Peasants can't do that though because they can't afford the book needed to learn the first level of magic or afford the subsequent teachers for higher levels. Here's the issue with that. All you need to learn magic in this world is to know the word and repeat it over and over until it finally activates..... its like the author builds up this grandiose wall preventing people from getting into the city but if you look for like...5 min there is a gate you could just walk through. You're telling me that these kids or there parents couldn't pay a small fee to a random struggling adventurer for a single word?Believe it or not, the things mentioned above aren't actually my biggest issue. No, my biggest issiue is that the author tries to gaslight you into thinking the MC is this cold logical protagonist. She is not. Cold? Sure, yeah, I can admit that. Logical though? Absolutely not. She escalates just about every interaction to mu*der for virtually any reason. Sometimes sure, it makes sense in the confines of the story. But the it's rarely the best way to solve the problem, the MC is just unaware of how to communicate properly or how to handle conflict in any way other than violence. I don't even mind her mu*derous tendencies. It was one of the reasons I kept reading. But don't also try to convince me that she's somehow in the right.Alright I'm done ranting. I do still believe that you could really enjoy the story of you are the type of person who can just read and enjoy the story without logic checking things. I'm just not one of those people so I can't do the 5* thing.