First we had the brother and sister that tried to murder multiple nobles at the school, so they could get enough money to flee to another country, where no one would know they are siblings. And after they are caught, the story treats them with sympathy. Attempted murder for the sake of incest! I nearly abandoned the series right then, but other readers assured me it got better.
Then we had the awful too perfect Mary Sue lesbian character, Manaria, that aggressively competed with the main character Rae, and tried to steal Claire away from her. What was so stupid about that whole story arc, was that Claire's character was established as straight and she was repulsed by the idea of love between two women. Which made Rae's attempts to romance her, all the more challenging. All of that was thrown out the window for the character Manaria, who was an obvious lesbian. And somehow, Claire had a crush on Manaria. It was absolutely infuriating because the author threw out all of the work they had done to establish who Claire was, for this new perfect Mary Sue type of character. But other readers assured me that this was the worst storyline in the series, and that it gets much better after this. They lied.
Then we had the guy whose mother was dying of some curable illness. So he becomes a terrorist in order to get the money to buy medicine for her. But he doesn't think he's powerful enough to pull off the job, so he kills himself and becomes undead before he even starts his mission. Which is incredibly stupid. Even if he succeeded, he would have still died after his undead status wore off. So there would be no one to use his money to buy the medicine for his mom. Instead, Claire buys medicine for his mom, after he is defeated and dies. The whole thing was sloppy and poorly written. But this incident was the catalyst for Claire to start reexamining and researching her views on the rights of nobility, commoners, and the living conditions of the classes of society. I couldn't stand that such a poorly written event was the catalyst for a major change in one of the two main characters. But once again, readers assured me that not only was the story about to get much better; but that we were about to meet one of the best characters in the story.
And then the nun was introduced, and people in the comments section were saying this she is the best character in the series. Upon Rae and Claire meeting the nun, she went on a long rant, during which she talked about "seizing the means of production." Everyone in the comments section were creaming themselves with excitement and joy over this character. A character that was directly quoting a phrase from Carl Marx's Communist Manifesto. Despite the fact that the characters are living in a sword and sorcery European Renaissance Otome video game world.