The 'love' and 'mystery' elements mentioned in the sypnosis have been incredibly light so far. There's mainly been a mix of adventure and SoL with some worldbuilding and intrigue mixed in. There's barely been any romance so far, and it seems like any progress in that department will be glacial.

From where I've reached, the story seems to mainly follow our MC's misadventures as his slightly curious nature leads him to get entangled in prisoners' circumstances.

I happen to like the kind of story this novel turned out being, but people going... more>> into this expecting a romance-focused novel will likely be disappointed.

The writing and plot of the episodic adventures are simple but above average for the stuff you usually find on NU and the translation's reasonably high quality too. It's worth giving a chance to see if you're into it. <<less

The only real flaw of this novel is that it's too short.

Everything is well written, I love the conflict of morality that the main character goes through in the beginning, the world building is also interesting.

Even with it's short length it managed to potray an interesting story of a prison warden's daily life.

I would say that it is unfortunate that because of the short length and kind of broad focus, the romance between MC & FL turns into a backdrop/addition to the slice of life.

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Spoiler

They interact, call each other's names, and boom he confessed, and boom prison break. With a rather unsatisfactory break for me too.

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All in all, I would 10/10 recommend it if you're looking for a short well written world building story, but not so much for if you want to be fully immersed and boiled and involved in a story, emotionally, and if you're looking for romance.

The couple is cute, like very cute, but just doesn't meet my fluff quota. But since it is a short story, I think that there's no fault in just reading it. Your time is not wasted, that's for sure. <<less