Honestly, my main beef with this manga isn't the previous arc, which was w/e to me, I didn't hate it as much as other people did, even if the plot was a bit contrived.
My beef's with how it's a monster girl manga but half the time they make sure to make them as non-monstery as possible, lmao. Like the kraken+spider have zero visible monster parts here even when they're in bikinis that would hardly be able to hide anything, it makes it feel about as "monster girl" focused as when you see a "monster girl"-tagged manga on here that just ends up being about a girl with cat ears.