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It is a fun read, and I really like the characters. Our MCs Ain and Ciel share a body, and their relationship is the central focus of the novel. They try to put a name to their relationship, but they find that they can't because neither of them can find a word to describe just how much they love each other in the way that they do, and as a reader, I agree with them. If either of them were to say they were just sisters, I would not believe them.A really fun thing this story does is introduce several isekai cliches, like a thug picking a fight with them as they register to be an adventurer, and our MCs respond to this in a realistic way. They don't stealthily deal with the guy and forgive them like a bleeding heart MC nor do they brutalized the guy like an edgy MC. They deal with him, ask for compensation, and let the guild deal with it. When someone tries to kill them to save their family, the MCs don't hold it against the person, but they don't risk their lives to save the family of the person who just tried to kill them either. As someone who had read a lot of isekai stories, it was refreshing and entertaining to see these characters not react strongly one way or another to this stuff. Granted, if I had not read a bunch of isekai, I'm not sure how well their callousness would have sat with me.