the MC is adopted to the royal family of the empire she lives in, where the emperor is fighting a shadow war against his pe*o druglord nobility using his adopted children (abducted s*aves) as assassins

ab*se and mu*der attempts from her new "family members" which are treated like nothing at all, and sending a 12 year old to assassinate members of high nobility with no support or resources or direction really

the MC is on good terms with the protagonist duo, and is literally an older sister to one of them from the orphanage, the most that happens is friendly competition for missions in the academy they all go to (yes it's an academy arc, or rather an academy story so far). Also overall there's basically no villain at all so far, besides a general theme of "war is bad"

as the time looping power of the MC is a deus ex machina, she's basically unkillable and unbeatable and it removes all tension from the story

The story seems to want to treat its protagonist like a reluctant child soldier yet it never makes her do anything to really get sad over and she isn’t sad over the things she does do. Her assassinating a guy just because she was ordered to is undercut by him being a pe*ophile/human trafficker. That his daughter is later introduced and is mad that MC killed her dad (she doesn’t know about the pe*o thing) would cause a lot of drama and make me much more interested but that’s just undercut by him being a secret horrible person, all tension and drama is gone and the whole subplot just feels like a chore.

Before I go off, I like this novel, but I'm struggling to read further. I honestly wanted a more ruthless protag from this novel, but as always, we get the 'I killed one person, but im actually the good guy because I actually killed a really really REALLY bad person' justification.

It's getting on my nerves how many novels do this. Like, can't we for once have a morally gray character that has truly adapted to their environment??

Ten years Silvia gets no missions EVEN THOUGH she is, in a sense, the most competent agent the Emperor has ever had.

From here on, the story already doesn't make friggin' sense anymore. Then we get the Count's assassination, a great point to establish that Silvia had adapted to her environment of killing while also having her own stance on it, but nooooooo. See the Count is actually a big bad meanie cunnyseur who 10000% is justified to be killed.

Alright, let's just say that the Emperor, in all his wisdom, decided to give Silvia the Count as an appetizer and motivation to succeed in her mission due to her own past of almost being ab*sed by such big bad nobles, great, sure, let's roll with that. It kinda makes sense.

Then what about those Warlords?!

Again, another great opportunity for our MC to leave her shell as this demigod of human morality like most MCs before her, but no, Alice has to frickin' Intervene! And to get this straight, just because Alice screams at her dad about how Silvia is hers, the Emperor—the 'people are tools' guy—let's her drag off Silvia to the academy?! Like come on!

The logical and ruthless Emperor described wouldn't abort a 100% guaranteed assassination of his current political headache to bend the knee to his hysterical daughter whining about her friend! It's HIS goddamned academy! Alice can well wait a month until Silvia returns from her mission, she'll just get sent there by the Emperor's authority after anyway, so it's not like it's a life-or-death kind of decision.

So again, many missed opportunities to actually turn our character into a mu*derer—not an edgy coldblooded whatever—but someone with at least a bit of moral complexity as her environment practically begs for it. Instead, she killed one person (Again, too much justification) and now is a saint of human morality walking amongst mortals on earth and I can't count high enough how many such characters I've read before.

Yes, they're 'safe', but at the end they come out so neutered that I don't care anymore. I just honestly feel disappointed about how wasted Silvia's potential as a morally complex character is. And even now in later chapters, Silvia goes on a soldier massacre, BUT HOLD ON! See, they're actually very very VERY bad people who just happened to r*pe, kill, mu*der and plunder... making them morally right to mu*der! What a coincidence! Again, nothing for our character to work through whatsoever!

Sure, people may disagree with me, but does noone feel that in such a dark world with such an environment to grow up in, our MC should've at least grown used to assassination? tl;dr: Another prospective great MC neutered by cookie cutter protagonist trope.

So first, the artifact situation. It doesn't make any f*cking sense whatsoever.

The Emperor, about 99% sure that Sylvia is a time reverting goddess, goes on to declare her his 'enemy' even though she literally does what he wants?

Then he inexplicably just appears in the artifact dungeon MC and gang were going to, again no explanation other than he just does. Then this clusterf*ck happened that was so badly described that I had to reread the chapter until I understood it.

Apparently the Emperor, with the piece of some ancient artifact that they were searching for, went into the dungeon to destroy it, exactly so that Sylvia would revert time and to try to prevent it, thus proving his point.

Except, now we have some ret*rded 'future Sylvia' that showed up, tried to kill Alice and then beats the sh*t out of Sylvia.

Then, *THEN*, she says some cryptic sh*t and is kicked to the side before we could have any semblance of the plot developing. But uh oh, for some reason Sylvia now can't revert back to the time before getting her ass kicked so now everyone knows her secret and the Emperor acts like a smug motherf*cker (still, why though??).

Her future self probably knew all this anyway, but still went ahead and ruined literally everything for our MC with no explanation whatsoever, it's just a bullsh*t cliffhanger.

The authors explanation for all of this? 'Well idk time sh*t ig, pls ignore'.

Sylvia literally goes 'aight' and just stops giving a shit. The plot said 'this gon happen' and the universe just obeyed.

Mind you, the Emperor goes on this evil-guy-speech-tangent before heading to the dungeon and it sounds cool and smart, but the guy is a f*cking idiot.

The author is literally just glazing bro to give the impression that he's smart. Same with Sylvia, she's amazingly s*upid.

Not for one second does she even consider what happened or that the Emperor is literally making moves on her, she just goes 'The Emperor has probably set me u- oh look a butterfly!' and completely empties her head, going on a vacation and everything except do anything about the problem.

It's as if the author strapped a bomb to Sylvia's chest with a ten second timer, but then the author just makes a month go by and then goes 'Oh no! Sylvia, look! The bomb on your chest is about to explode in 5 seconds!!!'.

There is literally no urgency in urgent matters, noone questions anything unless the author allows it and everyone ignores the most blatant sh*t until the Emperor can go 'Muhahaha!', at which point everyone pickachu-faces at the 'genius scheme' of the Emperor, A.K.A. the author has zero regard for his characters or their agency and plays them like puppets until his s*upid plot works.

Anyway Alice and Sylvia also went to the Count's daughter, Mia, and informed her what evil guy her dad was. But in like the most unnecessary and dramatic way possible, and she doesn't speak a single f*cking word because Alice and MC are supposed to be awed at whenever the author decides that they're being cool.

Now in the later parts, Sylvia just f*cks off to find Lucas, the guy who kidnapped her and told her he wants to kill her.

Why?

Because apparently Sylvia wants to know why he kidnapped her instead of Claire back then.

She asked the Emperor, but he just went 'Huhuhu, that's not fun.' and Slyvia didn't probe further before deciding to climb a f*cking mountain, getting an old fart to come back to the capital, just so she can wait even harder than before to probably fight Lucas and get a single sentence out of him before soy-pogging and getting into another impossibly s*upid situation.

It's just so s*upid and convoluted. Not to mention so frustrating, because I like the story and the characters, but the author just f*cks it up in every imaginable way!

No, I'm not frustrated that the MC has obstacles in her way and is not super OP, I'm frustrated about WHY EXACTLY those obstacles exist!

Every problem that Sylvia has had in this entire novel is artificial, non-organic. You can just feel and SEE the author grabbing characters by the neck to make them ignore major things and to let things fester.

Nothing works organically here. So when a villain can do his bullsh*t unbothered because our protagonist literally forgets from one moment to the next that she should do something about the guy screaming 'I WILL KILL YOU!!!' outside her window, of course I'm gonna be frustrated.

And I've read a lot if novels, sure, a lot of them have moments like this where you are annoyed or frustrated because it doesn't make sense. But this novel just doesn't stop, the entire thing is just these moments back to back!

Anyhow, I'll catch up when chapter ~170 releases. TL;DR: Nothing really changed, novel is still a mess.

The story itself is perfect at the beginning, but immediately cuts off to a timeskip, skipping all the interesting bits and parts that could lead up to it. You could have so much main character development within this arc, but instead chooses to stay the same cardboard cuz "I'm so stoic man, just so stoic. Killing ? I gotta do it man, even if I feel like sh*t doing it."

My personal desire of non-noble/royal path of adventure aside, the skip itself felt so terrible that my affinity due to author's similar tastes to mine completely fell apart.

their favourite game franchise's history, it's position in the gaming industry, the Japanese developers, the game's theme in relation to Japan's perspective and the game's timeline in relation to the other games. (Not in that order)

Instead, we get the MC using her regression powers to analyse and plan operations to complete assassinations and/or achieve her goals.