I honestly didn’t expect to get hooked this hard, but by chapter 99 I’m completely invested. What starts off as a quirky school-life setup has slowly but surely turned into a much bigger, layered story that mixes mystery, dungeon crawling, and character growth in a way that feels surprisingly natural.

The protagonist is my favorite part. She’s not some overpowered, flawless hero — she’s awkward, a bit lost, and makes mistakes, but that just makes her victories feel earned. Watching her go from worrying about her image as a normal high... more>> schooler to becoming someone people actually rely on was incredibly satisfying. There are moments where she’s way in over her head, and that tension is what keeps me reading.

The supporting cast also gets better the further you go. At first, I thought a lot of them were just background noise, but by the later chapters you start to see the dynamics between them, and even the side characters feel like they have their own agendas. The betrayals, shifting loyalties, and sudden arrests — they caught me off guard, but in a good way. It makes the world feel alive and unpredictable.

overall the translation is okay and worth reading the story so far. <<less

The premise was funny enough, and the situations where it's actually relevant are decent.

However, the chapters are incredibly short. After 20 chapters it feels like I might have read 3-5.

This is made worse by a large part of these chapters being taken up by a giant status window that barely changes at this point of the story (you'd really think that slowing it once every few chapters would be enough instead of several times per chapter in some cases), and lengthy explanations and lists of the commercial curriculum and certification... more>> requirements which I cannot possibly fathom to be relevant in this detail.

Maybe the author studied / worked in that field and went to the effort of providing details, but it really doesn't add depth at all.

Her high int allows her to study stuff quickly - fine. I don't need a list of the required and recommended credits repeated for five chapters in a row. I don't even need it once.

I can only recommend to skim those sections and to stack up a large buffer of chapters before reading or continuing to read, which I'll also do from this point on. There are few novels that I read one chapter at a time and I usually wait for at least five, but in this case I'll probably wait for another twenty or more. <<less

In one sentence, "Not too bad, but disappointing."

In more details... The story has potential to develop into something really complex and fleshed out but seems to rush, glossing over important plot points all the while confusing readers by dropping new elements out of nowhere.

We get assaulted with paragraphs upon paragraphs of what her lectures are, how busy she will be, throwing out terms completely foreign to 99% of readers not Japanese... But is that even relevant in the end ? No. At least at the point I stopped.

What I can't... more>> accept is how, once she starts to truly experiment with her cushions and getting attention from people, it gets thrown out the window and never mentionned again in profit of dungeon exploration, evil plots and whatnot.

Maybe the translation is not good enough and important points are badly transcribed, but more often than not, I would get confused about what is happening, who is talking, why are we suddenly someplace else from the last chapter...

We got from " I gotta protect my status and pass as a normal HS student" to "Let this girl help us arrest a criminal in a far too dangerous place where veteran died !" all while people are getting arrested with no explanation, traitors are among them and somehow the protagonist is super special and they want her ?

Uh... Maybe instead of spending 10 chapters talking about lectures nobody cares about you could have developed THAT part of the story ?

So yeah. Interesting premise but badly written : too much bloat, too rushed, too confusing and somehow the main plot point, her cushion, got forgotten along the way ? <<less