For my favorite light novel series, I often get frustrated with how little progress this story makes per volume. It feels like if you buy a book, you should be rewarded with something meaningful, but in the end nothing really happened this volume.
Yume decides to join a pirate crew, they make a lifetime's worth of money, and for some reason Setora has given up on Haruhiro, which allows him to pursue Merry instead. That's great I guess, but as whimsically as these things came, I feel they'll be just as whimsically taken away again. Anything that can be done can be undone, even death, in this series. Merry died and was brought back to life, so at this point it's just anything goes.
What I want to see happen is for an internal inflection point to be crossed. Like them learning how they ended up in Grimgar in the first place, or Haruhiro actually confessing to Merry, or just something decisive to happen already. Adventures are fine but what I'm actually interested in is characters. Oh well. Maybe next book, right?
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