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TL;DR. Skip it. It attempts to be intelligent, but it isn't. The romance is also bad. Translation is ok, but not great. It is at a level I can't be sure if the transaltion is lacking or the source material was just poor.I would have liked to like it, but it isn't very good.The story starts as a parody/comedy of a villainess with the MC being silly and extremly over powered because she really really wants to be an evil villainess that is abandoned by everyone (being abandoned is important for some reason) and shine by causing terror. If your response now is, what nonsense is this ? I'm with you. I have no idea. Even though I read over 150 chapters this concept is never touched upon even though it is ridiculous.Her character is incomprehensible. This is fine in a parody, but after about 50 chapters the story attempts to become serious. There is a... plot. The plot is that the king of the country decides that he needs someone to teach the Saintess of prophecy to be more realistic and less idealistic. This is because the Saintess is too much of a good girl. She is kind, compassionate, highly intelligent and hard-working, repectful of everyone and humble.How would you teach such person ? Maybe just send her a teacher who she will listen to respectfully because it is her character. In the story she actullay has what seems like a political science class that requires the students to think of how to solve state problems, and the Saintess writes some nonsense like 'Everyone should be nice to everyone else.' and instead of getting a failing mark or at least having a private session with the teacher she gets a perfect score. What is the point of the class? Hire better teachers.Maybe let her work as a secretary to a judge or a lord of a city to learn about the difficulties of the real world ? Let her manage a bakery. Anything with a bit of responsability where failure is possible ?Nope. You make an even younger girl, who is more than a little insane, to bully the Saintess. What better way to learn things than to be confronted and insulted in public ? I always learn things that way... This is the basis of this "serious and intelligent" story and it is dumb. Of course other things are dumb as well, but this is the heart of the story. Everything is about this, and it is beyond silly.In fact, if there is a learning scheme that I think even a very intelligent Saintess wouldn't be able comprehend, this is it.Some elements I liked. For example, the story focuses on the improtance of having grounded understanding of reality. Resources are limited, the world isn't perfect. So on. Being blind isn't a feature, but a problem. That is fine.Characters aren't particularly good. The exchanges between Claire and Alicia aren't particulary intelligent.Other straight out idiocy and or laziness in the story:Spoiler
- Her loving and very much alive and present mother is somehow not a character in the novel. In the 8 years covered by the story, she has been mentioned twice for two-three paragaphs. She has never appeared. What is going on ?
- The reason for the 13->15 time skip is silly. Fine, the father miscalculated. But why would either insist on the isolation anyway ? Two years of seeing no other human is quite insane. However you look at it, this is just child ab*se. There is no point to this. None. Just have her not go to scool. Why isn't that enough? Or invent something else. Have her contract random infectious magical disease, I don't care.
- The fact Claire (?) is the Saintess is a state secret no one must know. The one known chracteristic of the Saintess is that she and only she can use all forms of magic. Also, well known in the academy, Claire can use all forms of magic...
- There is an “impoverished village” which is just weird. Presumably this village exists in this form for over 50 years. People can’t leave or enter, there is no sunlight or clean water. How do they get food ? They can't grow anything without sun light. They can't use magic... There is no way they wouldn’t all be dead by now. Why does this place even exist? Are there several of these ? How large is the place ? How many people are iniside ? Are new people being continiously being brought in ? ow can our highly intelligent Alicia not care to learn about this ?
- It bugs me that two of Alicia's loving brothers started hating her because they like Claire. They actively mistreat her in front of Claire. How is Claire not disturbed by this ? This is very much not "kind and accepting of everyone". Why is Claire's possy even so obssessed in the first place. Is there some magic going on ? Why is no one looking into it ?