The first 200 chapters move at a very slow pace—so much so that I almost gave up. But it gradually starts to grow on you, and by the time you're further in, it becomes genuinely enjoyable. Unfortunately, the pacing picks up a bit too much near the end. Some interesting details are glossed over, likely due to the story nearing its conclusion (it feels like it might have been cut short).

Warning: Spoilers ahead

The story begins with the main character getting involved in light novel writing. Later on, they take a job at a cat café, where some of their old friends from another world also end up working. In time, the protagonist rises to become the café's manager

The main character only gains the ability to use magic near the end of the story.

Aside from the main group, there are no other supernatural elements in the world.

As for the other world, it's incredibly peaceful, with no problems whatsoever, as the Demon King has already been dealt with.

This is a true slow-life story.

So the synopsis hinting that there will be a relationship between the two, but the story is going incredibly slowly and at times it feels like its being extended for word count. Chapter 66, where I currently am, took me a few hours of reading to get to and as of this point MC has had only three interactions with the grim reaper. One where he died, one short one where she stole his dinner, then another short one. The last two probably have less than 5 paragraphs of content. Overall for a story with the main concept being "I won't submit to the grim reaper" said character is barely in the story.

This by itself wouldn't inherently make the story bad, different than expected but could still be good. The issue is the other content is slice of life that just becomes incredibly boring mixed in with long pointless sections of text. Theres long explanations of shopping with them buying each item that serve little to no purpose and could of been summarized in "I went shopping and bought a few things" which is fine to a degree but it feels incredibly long in this story.

Then the story also has long pointless rambles, there are paragraphs on paragraphs about the most random and pointless things. You will get something like 8 paragraphs straight talking about the development of this town which serves zero purpose. I guess you can call it world building but it really just feels like the author is trying to extend the word count. I can't summarize enough how many times there would be these rambles, where you get long introductions to characters back to back, pointless listings of different games or other random things that are irrelevant. It just really felt like you could cut out at least 40% of the content in this book and it would make zero difference to any world building/character development/plot.

Overall, mixing these reasons together the story just feels like its going nowhere. The initial hook never appeared, or at least won't appear until many hours of reading into the story and the content that you are reading feels like its being stretched as far as it can go, which just makes it a chore to read through. The main thread itself I think has potential but the execution has just ended up disappointing.

Between all of this is time spent addressing and 'healing' the pasts of both our MC and Miss Grim Reaper.

Shes just socially awkward, that's why she comes off as odd as she does in the beginning

The Grim Reaper has her reasons for doing what she does. And her reasons is explained through the MC's dreams. I had to read 70~'ish chapters before a picture of whats going on is painted. It's not a bad concept of a story it's just easy to get lost in it as the story doesn't tell much about the Reaper\MC interactions yet.