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So... this novel haves a major flaw.The whole premise is a time waster.It's so encumbered by the "loli" aspect that the author just keeps forcing to the point of it becoming bothersome that I can't enjoy it fully.There will be no mayor character growth or development, because she's 10 and the author has put shackles in him to avoid the premise to be broken to the point that it's... s*upid.The whole story is so filled with clichés and badly placed "unsaid things" that spell out completely what's happening and who is what and how that it shatters the mystery and pacing of the novel.You don't "see" action, you get told third hand, when she's doing something awesome the POV shifts to someone telling him she's being awesome or time skips till everything is over, when he is doing something awesome, the POV shifts to her reacting to something happening far away, when both of them are doing something awesome, the POV focuses on some third character that "reacts" to their accomplishments... this feels incredibly neurotic, as if the author knows that whatever was written in there would be horrible and decided to skip those scenes.He's an uncharismatic, twisted, over analytic, bore.She's a 10 yo tsundere that can't show her dere side because she's frikken 10.Nothing will advance until she grows up, but she wont, because the author can't write proper characters and the only feasible way that he thought it would make sense to have her not develop fully was by putting the age restraint.No real action is shown because the author wants to focus on his charactersThe characters... are boring, your run of the mill staple characters of Japanese novels.The story is predictable, at first I was mildly entertained by the worldbuilding but then it became a vehicle to force conflict.Everything that is happening doesn't feel like a real... story, it feels like the author is brute forcing his characters to portray a romantic development that can't be... instead of growing it organically, everything is in the service of the romantic development of the "loli" and the "emperor"... and it's not enjoyable when you realize that the plot happens because it "haves" to be that way for the characters to develop as the author wants them to, not the other way around.