Jean, the as*hole magician in the group, sold her to s*avery behind everyone else's back. Flum herself was never aware of it until she was pinned down in front of the s*ave trader. I really feel for her when she became desperate as she asked Jean if others know about it and got the response (lie) that everyone agreed. When all hope was lost, she still couldn't believe it... she cried that she wanted to go home. Her despair, sorrow, disappointment, and desperate calling to escape to somewhere safe and warm... were all fully displayed --- I cannot put in words how heart-rending that is.

The "Reversal" allows her to turn curses into blessings, and blessings into curses. Resulting from that, she could not gain strength from growth---since all the stats she get as she gains age would instead be subtracted, which eventually makes all her stats zero.

However, by (an exasperating) accident, she got her hand on a cursed weapon that normally lowers people's stats and melt their flesh. Due to her power "Reversal", it instead raises her power and make her regenerate really fast. But the weapon only raises her stats so much, and she cannot grow in power normally. As a result, she time and time again has to rely on her regeneration, not strength, to survive. This means that she suffers a LOT---amputation, dissection, throat slit, flesh eaten, etc. She has experienced hell, truly.

Contains massive spoilers. After reading this for a bit there's a question that never left me "Why not go back to your home town?" Like I mean Flum could 100% have went back to her hometown with no issues. Fighting the "Orge" and Spiral children was completely unnecessary. She's got the money, she could bring Milkit with her. Also some parts just straight up make no sense. It has been said before when Flum was still in the hero's party she would get healed by Maria with holy magic and with no issues but when Sara heals her she burns?????? That's just an example.

The yuri could've 110% been better. Actually it's not even yuri its more shoujo-ai then anything. Flum loves Milkit so much that Milkit is her sole motivation to live and keep on fighting BUT MILKIT'S NAME IS BARELY METIONED WHEN SHES FIGHTING. Also the development was pretty private or should I saw shallow like all we know is that Flum fell in love with Milkit because here eyes are "pretty". Like that's really shallow ngl. I mean they did talk about what they were doing before meeting each other but that was only mentioned once so it seems so shallow to me.

Ngl the my rating of this went dow hill when Milkit just disappeared like stuff where happening to quick like give it some time to breath it just felt s*upid when everyone started to disappear. The way they reunited wasn't that smooth either. It would've been better if Flum was legit by herself for a couple of days in despair her mind broken and no more hope to survive and when all hope is lost Gadio come to rescue her I really feel like it would've been better.

You should read it though. The fighting and horror kinda makes up for it (At least I think that it does)

TLDR; Flum is dumb and the Shoujo-ai is pretty plain

Its at this point the horror tag that most people took for granted kicks in. It just takes a few sentences in a single chapter to take the pre-established tone that most of the volume built up and throw that out for some existential horror.

The seeming culprits behind the horror ain't anything new but in this LN they feel like a genuine threat and even somewhat untouchable. Characters that are supposed to feel strong really don't compare to the said culprits and at several points it really seems like they're going to get killed simply because the culprit's that much of a threat.

The horror in this LN really feels like some HP Lovecraft sh*t and even kind of resembles Bloodborne in a way, but sh*t gets really weird in the volume extras which are seemingly side stories. The first extra is pretty light hearted and makes you think, "this is an alternate world where f*cked up sh*t doesn't happen to the innocent main characters unlike the main story", though it takes place in an almost comical future where countries are getting taken off the map due to everyone being trigger happy with nukes. It just feels like flavor text as the yuri is especially pushed forward in the extras and there's a hopeful tone that everything will be pretty fine by the end. Volume 2's extra chapter just throws the entire thing out of control and this extra chapter is the most disturbing chapter in the so-far two published volumes.

If I had to name one fault it's the church being evil thing. Normally I'm a fan of that sort of thing but Omae Gotoki really drove home the fact that the trope is getting a bit overused, especially since it was obvious since the first volume. In fact I can't easily think of a series where religion is a big part of the story and the church is perceived as good

For instance, in volumes 3 and 4, every main character inexplicably paired up with another character to form a relationship with subtle or not so subtle romantic undertones, and it was so unnatural it made me feel disgusted (especially Eterna (I think that's her name?) and the little girl)

The most interesting characters are the Children show up later. I can't remember if they show up in volume 2 but they're definitely present in 3 and 4, and to a lesser extent Maria

The funny thing is that, much like the MCs special ability, what I enjoyed (and didn't) about this LN was the opposite of what I expected. For starters, as pretty much every other review has already pointed out, this novel can get quite gritty. There are some very gruesome scenes that occur every now and then, and the narration doesn't hold back one bit. However, even though I say that, the story tries to balance out the grittiness with some fluffy slice of life, which yes is quite cute, but not particularly funny, just your run-off-the-mill fluff. Where this story does shine, however, is during the action. The author does a really good job at keeping the suspense and the tension while the MC is trying to deal with some problem (be it a dungeon, a monster or some other enemy). The enemies can be quite scary, and even though the MC's special ability can be used in some broken ways, she isn't OP, and she does have to think her way out of her hardships and she also has to rely on others. Of course, during the time she has to do that thinking she has to try to survive being attacked by really creepy monsters. For example, the main "dungeon" in volume 1 reminded me a lot of Dead Space, from the setting itself, to the odd monsters. It was quite scary, full of suspense, and I enjoyed reading that a lot.

That being said, as I've already stated, I picked this novel because I wanted some yuri and eh... that one part did fail me. That being said, this is entirely my personal opinion. If you're happy with just fluff between the MC and her love interest, I suppose this novel will work for you. However, whenever I look for a romance, I also tend to look for an interesting story between the characters involved, and though the main character is very interesting, I found the love interest to be quite bland. Her role in the story, rather than a companion to the MC in her adventures, seems to be like a safe haven of sorts, since with her she finds some degree of normalcy from all the crazy stuff she keeps getting involved into. On the other hand, the love interest is kinda just there. Compared to other characters she didn't leave any particular impression on me. If anything, I got the impression she got written in the story so that the MC could have someone to protect and look like some proper hero and a good person, even though she does plenty of dark stuff (all understandable and even justifiable, but still). As to how the MC and her love interest grew close, I get the idea that since both of them were subjected to s*avery, both of them kinda developed a need for each other, but the whole thing happened so fast, it felt kinda... forced. I mean, suddenly, the MC has the other girl as her raison d'être, even though they haven't been together for that long. And then it's just kinda established that they really love each other, and that's a fact the story goes along with.

Still, I've only read volume 1, and for all I know the love interest might develop into a more interesting character as the story goes on. However, reading other reviews, I think that won't happen. But, anyway, I don't think I'll be reading the other volumes any time soon, since I'm still craving for some yuri romance that I might enjoy, but I will definitely pick this back up once I'm craving for some action, suspense and horror.