Really enjoying the story and the eventual direction it plans on heading into. I understand I'm still early into it, as I've only just reached the part where they take the nobles' castle after the fort was revealed to have a particular achilles heel. I have to keep reminding myself not to get too attached to Lyria, as I also liked her a lot, for me it was all the time she spent with the MC in their early years together.... she was something of his heart, and always was going to be something of a reminder... grounding him into being the better version of himself.
That said, I can respect that her role is to advance HIS story and sadly once she serves her purpose, their paths ultimately go in opposite directions. I hold out hope that she will come back one day... and take her place at his side for the remaining years she has left. In the same way, I had hope Elvira would be more important to the MC, I'm a romantic at heart and them being forced apart by her father kind of left a bitter taste in my mouth, but maybe they just were never meant to be together?
I do like Aria... and Eris, for that matter. It's painfully obvious how Eris feels for the MC, and I hope her love won't stay unrequited. While I don't exactly get the same kind of feelings from Yana towards the MC... I do love me some monster/demon girls, and the whole taboo of a forbidden relationship (also why I like elves), so even if they don't have a totally open relationship where Yana becomes one of the MC's wives, I do like there being something between them... even better if she also gets pregnant and has baby.
