was a little bittersweet, but was a good ending

um pouco amargo, mas foi bom

is this character that doesn’t see much growth. His baseline personality is evil. No doubt about it, he is that “young master” trope villain. But when his soul is mixed with Kim Woojin’s, all his best attributes are combined with Woojin’s best. His stern but sometimes kind personality, his psychopathic level of mysophobia, and his soft moments where one soul overtook the other for a moment made this series as fun as it was. If it were any other protagonist, this story would be a 3.5/5 or a 4/5.

One, how every good relationship the main character has all gets ruined. And... yeah, I’m a bit peeved about it too. But, they served as a great way for characters to get character growth. It also showcases how tough his character is, being able to power through all their hatred even knowing he doesn’t deserve it. Two, how s*upid the female cast were. Other than the Epherene, I think the rest were pretty reasonable. Sylvia is this genius wizard who is in love with Deculine but doesn’t know that Deculine mu*dered her mother. It’s a reasonable love/hate struggle within her mind, because she loves Deculine but she also loves her mother. The way it gets resolved is grand, but it felt a bit off for me. The way she forgives just doesn’t feel perfect for me, and I guess it was written that way on purpose. Julie was my favorite to read through, probably because it was the only one without a ambiguous ending. Others complain that she was just like a child, and her older siblings just do all the work for her. But, that’s all explained in the story. She never wanted to be the leader of the Knight Group, she was just forced into it by Deculine. Of course she would be incompetent at the job, and she was still doing a good job. She just wanted to be a guardian knight. The slow paced romance where she starts falling for Deculine turned immense hatred, to her eventual realization, redemption and death made it beautiful to read. However, character-wise, Sophien was my favorite by far, and nobody should call it s*upid (other than it being a bit creepy because it’s technically g*ooming). She doesn’t understand her own emotions because she lives hundreds of years dying over and over again, and lost most feelings other than boredom and hate. Watching her slowly develop emotions and denying them was delightful to watch. Lia was my least favorite heroine because she was never really built up. She’s like this one “important” character that never really became important. Those four are the only I would consider heroines, Allen (Ellie) and Yeriel don’t count because Yeriel is his step-sister and it’s purely sibling love. Allen doesn’t count because after the first 120 chapters, she wasn’t useful for the story anymore. The other characters have reasons for acting as s*upid as they do, but Epherene is truly just a idiot character trope.

My only complaints are the things the author forgot/written out. For example, Drent. After his redemption arc and usefulness to the story ran out, he just disappears. We don’t know what happened to him as the story moved beyond the school to the imperial palace. He just ceases to exist. We never got to know his character, he was just one of the badly used foil character. Then, we should talk about power scaling. It just really doesn’t make sense sometimes. Allen has the power of space, she can teleport and literally split people’s bodies apart. She’s practically unbeatable. Yet she still somehow lose a fight. Deculine rips apart thousands of monsters without break (without the Yukline bloodline buff) but loses to some random altar knight. The knight chasing after his car was probably Syrio or Jogan, but I’m leaning towards Syrio because he was fast enough to catch a “Midas Hand” buffed car. Deculine already analyzed all his moves a arc before Syrio was even revealed to be evil, and he somehow still lost. Deculine one showed enough skill to humiliate Julie, his fiancée and one of the greatest knights in the country. Of course, that was a duel without mana, but his greatest capability is literally being able to analyze everything. We never see Deculine fight for real. It’s either they die instantly, surrender, or Deculine manages to talk them out of it. We never get to see how strong he really is. My biggest complaint is that we never got to see anything about Rohanalk, the concentration camp. The main character built it, spent half a arc sending people there, and then it was never brought up again except once. At least show the readers what Deculine planned for the demon blood. It was supposed to be a scheme where he can protect most of the demon blood from immediate execution, but we never see what’s inside. We get one comedic scene where Ellen is complaining to Carixel in it, and that’s it. My final complaint though, is the beginning and the ending. The author never tells us how they were transported or how the world even existed. I remember one person telling Kim Woojin to look outside, but it’s clear “Rain” was behind it. It’s a question we never get a answer to, and it’s a bit frustrating. Rain was the primordial god, so there’s two possibilities. She was a god that somehow made it to Woojin’s world (by killing themself) and lost a bit of her/his powers but was still creating worlds; or she was a game script writer that has the power to create whole universes.

So the end of this is basically the MC tries go all Code Geass ending and become the most evil existence to bring peace or some crap. Unfortunately it was very poorly executed. Then there are the last few chapters that could be considered the Epilogue in which the heroines saved the MC from killing himself by messing with time.

Author pretty much sealed the fate of the three heroines that the MC could see as a romantic interest from being in a relationship with him in the last arc.

Sophien (implied to be loved by the fusion of Deculein and Kim Woojin's personality) died due to interfering with the rules of time/world trying to save MC.

Yoo Ara/Lia (who Kim Woojin loved) is "observed by the world" so she can never interact with MC as the "world" would correct the alteration that MC is currently alive.

Julie (who Deculein loved) who has the feelings of love towards MC has died (at least the one holding these memories), leaving only a younger version of herself with no recollection of all the times spent with MC.

locralen arc that deals with time and other time related problem. I wonder how he would resolved it though.

Kim Woojin's background was not explained at all at the start, we don't know if he was and orphan or have any important relationship beside his ex Yoo Ara. But suddenly at the Yeriel arc it was revealed that he had a sister that passed away so that's why he can consider Yeriel as his sister. There are many instance like this so it seems as the author just write something out of the blue.