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This review will contain some spoilers, so read at your own discretion.The story starts out with a sad premise. The MC is a s*ave girl who works in a magic stone mine, and it generally treated poorly. However she flees from the mine and saves a noble later. The noble then rewards the MC and they later join the Royal Magic Academy. Up to here the noble and her father discovered her super talent at magic, hence the reason to join the Academy. And apparently she's some sort of super genius, despite she's never studied before in her life, and has lived her whole life as a s*ave working in a magic stone mine, yet no one questions this further than called her a genius... Well so far it was good and fluffy, but around chapter 15 the author presents the readers with a really interesting plot twist. He then proceeds to thoroughly burn the plot twist, bury it and dance on its grave. The MC had a chance to regain some sealed memories of her previous life. She would know who she really was, and gain a ton of power. But she's too scared to know the truth and refused to get her memories back, just because she saw some scary images and her familiars encouraged her to kill/subjugate humanity. I get this is a pretty solid argument, but she's by no means obligated to do so. The familiars even told her they can't go against her will, so she doesn't really have anything to be afraid of for the future. She could just get her memories back and decide not to become a dictator/monster, but nevertheless, she refused to get her memories back. And she even forgot she even had this conversation after she had the conversation, so she doesn't even have any way to reflect on whether or not it was the right choice. In my opinion the author missed a solid and really interesting plot twist here, just to potentially build up some future plot twist which could have worked perfectly at this time anyway. It just feels like a cheap way to lengthen the story to me, but maybe that's just my opinion. If the author really wanted to lengthen the story, then he shouldn't have mentioned this plot twist to begin with until much later when the MC was more mature. Heck the story even said the MC was by no means dumb, and always analyses her surroundings, but apparently she forgot to analyse her surroundings at that time...Anyway, so far that's my opinion on the story. If the future brings something interesting I'll give my opinion again at that time.TLDR; The story starts out tragic, but quickly becomes fluffy and cute. The MC was a s*ave, but fled from s*avery, and later saved a noble due to coincidence. This fateful encounter leads to the MC gaining a friend, and eventually joining the Royal Magic Academy. She becomes a super genius at magic, and slowly becomes friends with her class. Pretty good so far, but then the author presented an interesting plot twist which he then proceeded to burn, bury and lastly danced on its grave, just to lengthen the story. If the author wanted to lengthen the story, then he shouldn't have mentioned the plot twist to begin with until much later. So the story starts out pretty interesting, but goes downhill around chapter 15. If the future brings something interesting I'll give my opinion again at that time.So far I'll give it 3/5, as the general story is okay, and I don't think only one problem should drag my rating all the way down, but I really dislike when authors present interesting plot twists, just to throw them away right away without good reason. Sure, it might leads to future plot twists, but there's no reason we should need to wait, as the plot twist would have worked well at that time, but maybe I'm just being pissed.