I saw the spoilers. it's a happy ending (i think? I only saw the illustration but seems like it), it's the harem ending as always. There was some drama in the middle, but I think we all saw that coming from the early chapters lol.

Something like you betrayed us, you demon bla bla bla... and all that good stuff.

For almost all of part 2 the author essentially forgot about the system, his superpower & word magic. Then on top of that he doesn't even really win the final battle, it's just kind of handed to him.

Bertus, Lint, Cliffman & Redina's moments.

Charlotte - at the beginning she was my favorite, genuinely she was such a good character, but after the events at the end of part 1, it felt like the author wanted to completely forget about her as a romance option. Not once in all of part 2 was there a scene that felt romantic, the closest thing to it was a scene where they finally talked things out, but in the end they felt like they were in a business relationship more than anything. Even in the side stories she feels like she is purely in a business relationship with him, not even having a child with him unlike 3 of the other girls.

Olivia - Throughout the whole story she relentlessly pursues Reinhardt, and that doesn't stop when part 2 starts, but Reinhardt never once returns any affection, almost to the point that you genuinely feel bad for her, she's trying so hard and is always being ignored. Then in the side stories when she finally gets the ending she wants she is shipped off to make a new country, hardly getting to spend any time with Reinhardt, and on top of that it almost felt as if the author character assassinated her, Olivia who throughout the whole story constantly made it clear that she wanted a family with Reinhardt, and that she would cherish it, gives birth to a kid... and decides to give her to Harriet for 3 years...? Olivia would have never done that? Her whole thing was that she was never able to have a proper family so she wanted one desperately... it felt really s*upid to read.

Harriet - Honestly Harriet was a very weird character, as part 2 starts we find out that her and Reinhardt share a room & bed, and have been for months by this point, but nothing at all has happened. Fair enough you might say, alot happened, but at the same time Reinhardt once again basically gives her no affection, he teases her, thanks her, but gives her no real affection. And for most of part 2 it stays like that.. until the end of the final battle where suddenly Ellen tells her to take what she wants instead of being passive, and all of a sudden Harriet pounces on Reinhardt telling him to marry her, seems cute right? It was at that moment, but the second the side stories start, that's it, you never see an ounce more affection between them, they go back to acting like they did before they got married. Then we suddenly see Harriet become a housewife looking after Reinhardts 3 kids (Olivia's, Harriet's & Ellen's) which is fine, someone needed to take on the job... but we still don't see Reinhardt interact with Harriet at all, it doesn't feel believable that Reinhardt actually had kids with anyone.

Finally Ellen - Honestly this story should've been a Pure Love between Reinhardt and Ellen with nobody else involved, their tragic romance was amazing, even if I never thought Ellen was best girl nor did I ever like Ellen that much, at the end of the day I thought the story between the two of them was amazing. Even her conclusion where she finds a way to be with him (even if it's a strange way) was a nice conclusion, but once again after all the issues were wrapped up we never got to see any actual romance, leaving it very unsatisfying after all that time waiting for everything to end happily.

THEN YOU GIVE BERTUS A MORE SATISFYING ROMANTIC ENDING UGHHH

1. The main character keeps consistently withholding information from the people that he trusts, can trust and absolutely trust him. If the even confided in any one of the other main characters, the story would've gone very differently in a good way. But, for some absolutely absurd reason he keeps refraining from telling them anything, deliberately letting misconceptions and misinformation keep piling up. It's raw "plot fuel" (as opposed to plot armor), and unfortunately it's of the type that's the worst burning nauseating smoke filled type that is usually avoided.
2. The main character is consistently flip-flopping between his decisions. These flip-flops can sometimes take up 80% of the core of a chapter when they happen. And this happens frequently.
3. The author is great with his or her ability to write, but unfortunately also uses that ability to consistently re-hash content that was just said but worded differently, events that happened last chapter, and then go on to rehash anything and everything that happened in relation to the "current" part of the story. Then goes on to rehash anything related to the characters present in the current context. Pure word count fillers which typically take up around 20-60% of every chapter that isn't an action chapter. The worst I encountered so far was multiple chapters worth of 90+% rehashes in a row where anything really new can be read by just reading anything in speech marks; 3-4 sentences per chapter.
4. There are just way too many subplots and scenarios that induce cringe and make it uncomfortable, at least for me to read.
5. The author unfortunately later on starts applying the same "sin" as the MC to his chapters, which lead the MC to end up in his own novel world, tho not as bad yet (killing off relevant sub-plot characters just to increase the cringe).
6. So much pointless suffering for the characters we want to cheer on and read about. Pretty much all of which could’ve been avoided, mitigated or at least reduced if the MC fixed flaw #1 above.
7. Cringe inducing situations that the MC could've avoided by being truthful or confiding in his "friends" in advance. Oh wait, I'm copying the author's flaw #3 by rehashing point number 3 and combining point number five together to create word filler sentences. "Oops". But wait, the author has a really good and interesting writing style, so the flaws or maybe not flaws are considered ok? perhaps, but since the MC becomes indecisive but still ends up doing what's needed it's still ok. Until the MC ends up cleaning up after his own mess, which would've been avoidable or a best-case-scenario reached if he used his brains and confided in at least one other person he can trust. His friends trust him 100% (or more for some female characters) but he says he trusts them, but he doesn't; he creates situations that just makes readers want to scream why is he making it so cringe-worthy when telling the truth to someone that trusts him would've solved things sooner? Why does the MC keep doing things that keep leading to more and more suffering for his closest friends? Isn't it interesting that our brain can read all of this rehashed text and find it interesting, or at least readable despite the actual content being just a rehash of everything that's already outlined in flaws 1-4, just because the wording was different? Until we actually think with our brains and realise that nothing actually new was written.
   
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the female leads are mentally tormented later on

I'm talking about the cluster of vengeful spirits coming out of Liana's massacre in the two years at Edina. Either it wasn't clarified enough that such cluster attracted not only the ones killed by her but also more or less far more souls all over the continent, or... those spirits were very, very strong.

It's weird. I mean, how many people might Liana have killed in these two years. It won't be a staggering amount, or at least, not compared to the deaths in the continent, so I honestly felt very baffled by how this became a legit important plot point. So I just imagine many souls were attracted to that pit.

It's retribution for the MC, as he himself probably stated if I don't remember wrongly, how it's all due to him 'giving up the story' and making the 'gate event' in the novel.

I overall loved the most the winter imperial capital arc in the middle of the war, so many events spontaneously started and become an avalanche forcing everyone doing.. what they had to do. Truly a series of unfortunate happenings. Ludwig's monologue at the end of chapter 618. "It's just... an inevitable occurrence, I suppose."

I honestly wanted Bertus to still question Reinhardt's reason for crossdressing. That was gold.