It's a bit odd how the the story doesn't fan out, given the amount of setting and characters. The structure is a bit of a lull. The author should have swapped the timeline and POV, like how he did it with the prologue, to spread interest across the story, not just a few moments. The comedic value is rather too thin to help and so is, aside from the heroine and, to some extent, MC, the lack of character development.