Too little happens with the office lady side, unfortunately. They keep repeating the same things over and over.
While on the MC side, MC's personality is a bit lacking in agency, he's not having enough push and pull with the navi.
From the limited information we have so far, either he's a reincarnator, or his personality DOES have issues, regardless of what the original Pride did to him.
The weak are not inherently virtuous.
It's overused, but the only real issue is making a merchant's daughter the first wife. That would make for problems in the future with the children.
On the other they could also just not CARE, considering how screwed up the nation is already.
An extra point that I haven't seen the novel address yet.
Regardless of the magic cancer growing in them, this accelerated growth can't be good for their lifespan. How old could MC really live, at this pace?
Shrug. Hardly a rare thing in manga. I'm sticking around incase the alchemy actually does something interesting instead of mashing magic energy on everything, what about you?