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I suggest you skip first couple chapters/prologue. They don't quite make sense in developing the back story. Instead they are used to introduce members of the harem.Spoiler
The MC is the Duke of where the witch was found and is imprisoned using that as the cause. Then he apparently has to guide the expedition party which consist of 4 women who will most likely be part of the harem. He is the only servant and performs all the menial work since he is a "criminal". Additionally, they take a year to go back to the duchy even when the empire is starving because of endless winter. You would think there should be some urgency to killing the witch.
[collapse]It doesn't get that much better after the regression so far.SpoilerAuthor is setting the MC up for incompetence. The MC is bored and not paying attention to the high-level politics during the meeting with the Emperor. Why doesn't he care about the conflict between his family and his former fiancé's family?
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