he is tricked by his family, royalty, duke, two girls and two advanced ancient AI to go to his own engagement ceremony. He managed to escape previous attempts to corner him, but he can't run forever

Oh, you just declared war on my country, invaded, took my girl hostage, tried to kill my fellow classmates and fired cannons with the intention to kill at me?

Best I can do is to knock you out with rubber bullets and let you live! I can't kill anyone, this is the best I can do!

At some point he even outright says that he can't kill and wonders how long he can let the bad guys off lightly. All while subjugating pirates who steal and mu*der.

Then there is this hugely inconsistent plothole. Why is the head of the country the king when it's supposed to be a matriarchy? This literally doesn't make sense.

A ton of stereotyping about the women too makes it really weird. Why do I feel as if there is incel tier stereotyping towards women?

by the end of chapter 11 the MC gets over his insecurities of being unworthy of the 2 love interests and decides instead of accepting his inability to stand by them, he will work to become someone who can.

That said he still doesnt know how to respond to livia's confession by the end of the second volume, but I think he will accept it eventually, this novel has been admirably good about keeping misunderstandings short lived

I'm rating this harshly, maybe more so than usual, because it's a light novel instead of an unpolished web novel, the beginning of the series set my expectations pretty high, and this series has pissed me off so much that it's the first one I'm dropping because I literally cannot stand this author instead of simply being bored by the content. The only reason this isn't 1 star for me is that the first volume is at least decent, but it's all downhill from there.

I started reading this series since the manga sold me, but I'm now just too tired of pretending I don't hate this series. It like the author is hell-bent on forcing plot points that will piss off the reader for no reason. Maybe this author somehow has a vendetta and thinks that plots should never have satisfying resolutions. The protagonist is literally never happy. Whatever he does, whatever he achieves, and no matter if he achieved his goal or not, he will always get f*cked over in the end because the author has decided beforehand. He takes a beating for no reason when he's perfectly capable of avoiding them and also dealing them back in turn. He gets handed a plateful of sh*t and then proceeds to ask for a spoon and a bib. It's like the author couldn't decide what kind of protagonist to have: the ruthless and strong type you'd see in weak-to-strong series or the jokester and weak type you'd see in lighthearted comedy series. Somehow this MC is the worst of both worlds. This smooth-brained little sh*t of an MC dares to complain about his situation when he literally has all the power in the world in the form of Luxon and then just doesn't use it in some cases, which I'm guessing is entirely due to the author not thinking before writing at all. It's incomprehensible how he hasn't either crushed the kingdom or deserted it to live on his own. This thoughtlessly put together plot would be bad for the series at the web novel state, but somehow it made it to the light novel state.

The worthlessness of the protagonist isn't even the beginning of the series' issues. It's ok for a drama series to have a protagonist that's initially worthless, but you need strong supporting characters that actually whip their ass into shape over time. There are literally none in this series, and the protagonist only ever gets the illusion of growth without really ever going anywhere. Livia is too busy dealing with her own internal sh*t to have an effect anywhere else. Her character is likable, but she will never do anything to affect the major plot points except as a deus ex-machina when the author feels like it. The author even points out how unimpactful she is and then proceeds to not fix it as if spitting in the reader's face. Anjelica has the right idea most of the time, and then never follows through in whipping the protagonist's ass into following that idea for some unknown reason even though it'll only hurt him in the end. The author keeps introducing other love interests for the harem without giving any reason for why this person isn't also complete s*um like just about every other female character in the series. Dear writer, is it that hard to recognize that the very setting you chose mandates you justify why some characters deserve to be potential love interests? All we ever see are rare moments of them being cute or emotional. For a series focused on how badly male characters are treated in otome games, does the author really not feel like a complete hypocrite with how they've characterized the female love interests?

Even worse than the love interests are the rest of the cast. Who in their right mind would willingly keep these pieces of sh*t around even if it were to just keep up appearances? Why does the author keep giving Marie and the princes so much attention in the first place? Rather than a proper nemesis, b*tchmouto and her f*ckboi squad feel like the weekly villains in a shounen series that have somehow been given the main recurring villain role. How are they supposed to feel threatening when they are literally incompetent? Why do they deserve our pity when there are clearly characters in much worse circumstances? In fact, why are they still in the story at all, when they should have disappeared at the end of the first novel? Why has the protagonist continued to associate with them, when he openly hates them with a vengeance? If you say it's because the protagonist needs to work with them to save the kingdom, why does he want to do so in the first place when he constantly complains about how sh*t of a place it is WHILE having complete personal security in the form of Luxon? It'd be easy for him to just save those he cared about and leave the rest to their fate. In the first place, why oh why would this author push so hard for us to care about this kingdom potentially falling into destruction when it's literally hammered into us how sh*t of a place it is? And for f*cks sake can we stop introducing corrupt noble after corrupt noble as the "villain of the week"? B*tchmouto and the f*ckboi five are insufferable enough, do we seriously need even more low-quality villains that are even more cliche and forgettable? Is five even the correct number of f*ckbois in b*tchmouto's reverse harem? I can't even f*cking remember. That's how forgettable they are. Seriously, the most relatable character is Luxon. I'd be trying to "exterminate all humans" too if I had to live in that world.

Does this author understand at all that it's painful to read something like this? It like not even the author knew what kind of series this was, so they carelessly threw all the ingredients into the pot without looking and then served the reader a fresh steaming bowl of sh*t soup with a smile. It might look pretty appetizing, but that sh*t taste in your mouth will only get worse the further you get through it. The comedy doesn't make you laugh. The drama only makes you cringe. The sci-fi elements would feel shallow if it weren't for the even shallower magic system. The action is your cliche mecha action with no creativity, and I'm convinced this author doesn't understand the meaning of "adventure." At this point, I'd kill for literally any satisfying development, but villains always just "disappear" having been given their comeuppance off-screen, and those who brought them to justice only get meaningless rewards which sometimes literally hurt them.

I'm sure this author is a nice person and was just trying their best. I really wanted to like this series too. I tried my hardest to just grin and bear it. I wanted to stay convinced that it'll get better in just a few chapters, that the characters are acting dumb for a reason, that the ending will make it all worth it. Reality is harsh.

The two female lovers interests of MC (who love MC, one has confessed) end up stepping on a machine to measure love by mistake while trying to drag MC there. The machine says that "both sides have true love for each other with a score of 120". Upto that point all they have been shown as are best friends who see each other as sisters. There has been 0 reason for them to be romantically in love with each other.

I assume that their "true love" (according to the love score machine) for each other is more like sisters/best-friends/platonic because this event was obviously a gag/comedic-moment/joke.

Right after this takes place, it is used for comedic effect, which when taken alongside the events of the story before this makes it so that it only makes sense that the "true love" was their platonic love for each other, but it's never explicitly confirmed.

[though, I state again, it is obvious it was all for comedic effect. If I recall correctly, right after that both of them slap Leon and call him the worst for answering their separate confessions he loves them both after they forced him to answer. So, clearly the girls dislike and don't believe in the idea of romantically loving multiple people (plus, going by the story, both of them don't have a reason to love anyone other than Leon). The only reason they accepted it was because they're sisterly best friends who loved the same guy but neither of them wanted to lose (they were even prepared for a fair and square one girl wins fight) and they didn't want the other to hurt either (they knew that whoever lost would be devastated). Perhaps combining that with Leon's answer made it easier to accept it. VOLUME 6 SPOILER: And the only reason they accept Noelle is because of the necessity, circumstances, and for Leon's sake].

Oh also, hearing Angie say something roughly along the lines of "When I found out (via the machine) that I loved Livia" or something like that was funny AF, even though it's also sad best girl is being made to say this cuz of the author's s*upid actions thus far. Of course, since this was used comedically and given the story before this moment, I'm certain the "true love"/"love" is Platonic as sisterly best friends.

Angie "Leaned forward and pressed her lips on Livia's lips" after reconciling/making-up from the fighting about MC getting another girl in the harem and how to handle her. I assume it's more of a weird but platonic "we made up with each other so we're back to being on good terms"/reconciliatory peck on the lips (with platonic feelings).

the MC gets a 3rd fiancee who at some point asks Angie (and Livia?) that if they love each other so much, why don't they leave the MC. This question supposedly makes Angie become angry. (I'd assume because her love for Livia is platonic and Leon is not only the only person she loves romantically but also there's no one she loves as much or more than Leon. The last part is also evidenced from the fact that even after the first Yuri-gag I mentioned here (love score) the girls corner Leon to find out which of them Leon likes (and get angry when he says both and then both proceed to slap him).

Livia often sleeps in the same room as Angie (and they're both only in their underwear when the sleep). In fact, MC's third fiancee even mentions that they saw Olivia's personal effects in Angie's room. Which is fine I guess because they're best friends and like sisters (and living in the same house, even if they have separate rooms of their own), so it can be easily considered platonic. Yet some people like to bring this up as "proof" / "hints", so I thought I should at least mention them.