The MC is a poor soul who had no parents at a young age and lived in the slums. She was sold and was used as an experiment, later having super powers. The MC is not a Mary Sue, she's a level-headed, cool woman who will only panic inside her head (though that also rarely happens) when there's trouble occuring.

1. who is the bug in laki's head? this question goes unanswered for the entirety of the story, because nobody but lakis knows anout the bug and he just kinda accepted it as normal because of his powers. is the bug just a coping mechanism from his days at the grave, or is the bug something more?

2. why does arachne look like selena? we sort of vaguely get confirmation why, and that its because selena got absorbed as a ruin fragment and somehow eventually this ruin fragment got injected into yuri, but ehhh... it still leaves us wondering how that happened to selena exactly, and why. which brings me to my bext point.

3. dominic crawford. how the hell did he arrive at the conclusion to use heretics to strengthen his power? we get that whole talk between him and kalian, but it wouldve been more interesting to hear from dominic's perspective or even a flashback to the moment he decided to use heretics, how he came into contact with that kind of research, selena's involvement, and the moment he came into contact with milliam. it all got condensed down to a couple paragraphs of a confrontation between him and kalian, which leaves a poor taste in my mouth.

4. ending ships. there doesnt need to be any, but its quite weirs that the author vaguely gestures at potential relationships between genos and siren, and odin and anne-marrie. it felt so half assed and random too, tbh. its a stretch if you think about odin and AM, but it's completely out of left field for genos and siren. and then the author dumps this subplot because everyone moves on in the last five chapters: yuri and the homies move to the west, genos and damon are playing detective, and we hear nothing about AM.

5. tatiana. the whole tatiana subplot felt so convenient and condensed. shes a close friend of bastain, influential in the north, investigating the whole heretics shenanigans dominic got going, and happens to be arachne's contractor they she never bothered to look into because she's lazy. for such an important person who reads as vital to the heretic subplot on paper, we mostly just see her bickering with bastain and thinking about how suspicious things are at the crawford mansion. she couldve had at least a dozen more chapters dedicated to whatever the heck she was up to. yuri wasnt the only one lazy, so was the author.

6. and finally, my biggest issue w this novel: the fact that the novel isnt set in the past, but in the future??? and the author decided to drop this bombshell on us in the last 10 chapters??? and decides to make the side stories all fluff and NOT a whole detective yuri quest line about wtf this means??? yuri doesnt even care, she says "huh, ok then. thats weird" and then lakis destroys the place and she stops thinking about it. its actually so mind boggling and tragic that such an interesting plot twist was introduced at the end of the story and not explored further. its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO upsetting. and THIS is why these ch20 reviews shouldnt be trusted, because this ending will absolutely piss you off. nobody is gonna read this review anyway, hope everyone who goes off of early reviews gets as upset as I was with the ending lmao. dont always trust mtl spoiler threads 💀💀

Yuri is written to be an emotionless character, literally. However, whenever she makes physical contact with the male lead, Lakis, she suddenly gets all of her emotions back. Since Yuri likes the sensation of getting all her emotions back she touches Lakis' hands and body with any opportunity she finds which is honestly creepy behavior. Keep in mind that she starts engaging in this type of behavior within the first week of meeting Lakis while he is heavily injured and unable to move. Lakis also feels some kind of way whenever Yuri touches him similar to some kind of marijuana drug, so he welcomes the physical contact as well. I'm sure this is all going to be explained later in the story but right now it's just a ridiculous excuse for the two leads to get all touchy-feely with each other. What if this had happened with another male character? Would she have garnered feelings for them instead if they had this mysterious phenomenon to help them out?

This issue is even brought up by Yuri in chapter 71, but of course it's all glossed over once they start getting some steamy action five seconds later. If Lakis had appeared in front of the heroine's door he would have fallen in love with her like he did in the book, but because Yuri had taken care of him instead all of those feelings were pushed onto Yuri. I also find it strange that other than Lakis, the three other male characters are having romantic feelings for Yuri as well despite her having no discernible personality whatsoever. These other male characters only started interacting with Yuri because she coincidentally happened to look like a dead person they used to know. See the pattern here? These characters have some kind of "reason" to love Yuri whether it is because of a mysterious phenomenon or because she looks like their friend's dead mother. The author deems these plot points necessary to move the story along because otherwise, Yuri would probably be living forever alone due to her distinct lack of personality.