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Honestly, the translation itself alone is worth 10 stars to me. But the content of the story, just pisses me off sometimes.The protagonist, Flora, is a noble girl, with Yuri Feelings. But she's not just any noble girl. From a young age she's been trained in everything from politics, and magic, to martial arts and warfare. Practically from birth, She was groomed to be a queen, and she's shown just how powerful and tallented she is throughout the chapters.Thanks to her training, when she goes out into the world, she proves time and again, that She's a genious in academics, trade, science, etc. Etc.She's practically a mary sue character, just based on how overpowered she is by the time the series actually kicks off.However, Despite how overpowered the protagonist is, the story still remains fun and engaging at least for the most part.But at the end of the day, the series has a massive problem.There's a sense of dissonance in the way Flora's written throughout the story, that really bothers me. It first shows up around the first 50 chapters or so.By this point she's all but proven that she's an absolute unit in terms of strength. Political, financial, military, you name it, she's got it.But she can't do anything about her feelings because she lacks the confidence in her own strength. She's always constantly at war with herself, and never acts on her own feelings because she's too afraid to try. Too scared of the consequences. At first, it's understandable, maybe even comical, she really has no clue about were she is in the hiearchy.However, at some point Everyone else looks at her like they're looking at a monster, but somehow against all common sense, she still holds on to the preconceived notion that she's in a weak position.Because She assumes that she is in a weak position, whenever she's negotiating with people in power she always makes many concessions that she doesn't need to. She's always worried about wether or not she's offended someone. Etc. Etc.The series carries on like this at least for about the first 100 chapters, and there's still no end in sight for this.And the longer it carries on like this, the more idiotic the protagonist looks. She just keeps making mistakes, based on her own skewed perception of the world around her, yet she never stops to properly learn from them. She never takes a second to ask other people wether or not they're seeing the same thing she is. So she's simply doomed to repeat failure after failure.This is the crux of the issue. The Protagonist says she's into Yuri, and in her head, she's always complaining about the world around her. But in the reality she never actually acts on her feelings. She just follows around and submits to her male fiance, because she's afraid of the consequences of breaking up with him, despite how much power she's already built up for herself.And it gets more and more annoying as the series goes on, because she doesn't need to be so deferential. She's already built up her own base of power, and yet she does nothing for herself.The more one reads this the less you feel for her and the more you grow frustrated with her. It's the typical 'misunderstandings' plotline, only this misunderstanding carries on practically forever. The joke gets old real fast.Hell, if this were a straight novel, and I couldn't read her actual thoughts, I'd just assume she was a tsundere. TL. DR:The protagonist has selective density. And it's super tiresome. Sometimes she's just pure gold and at others she's a black hole.
