Why does he look weary? Ummn, his wife, who doesn't normally sleep, has been in a coma for weeks after getting stabbed in the heart with a poisoned spike. You go through that and be all chipper....
That's her biological father. He disappeared when she was young, apparently (claims he was trapped by humans in a mystical dimension). The bone daddy who's stepping in to fight for her is the yokai who adopted her and raised her.
Because weak men like to have a woman that runs everything, they don't need to lift a finger, plus they get to watch her bully other women.
She'd never bully him, she'd just be decisive and run everything.
Poor Miku. She didn't get the 'Ahn' feeding of Sou's sausage. She had to catch a mind-broken Kana. And she had to remain composed while thinking 'it should have been me!'
Poor Poor Miku.
Your initial memory is not quite correct. Nobody belived he'd be able to keep that, so they built in all sorts of clauses to handle that inevitability.
Ehh, the 'isekai' plot is necessary, how else would a Japanese salaryman end up in a world of swords and sorcery?
I genuinely appreciate the setup to this story: the MC isn't reincarnated (yet magically remembers everything from his old life), he travels to another world with fundamentally...
"In the future, should this smile that Zenjirou shows me change into something else, will I, as queen, be able to accept that?" So Aura is afraid Zenjirou is going to fall out of love with her? Perhaps even resent her?