Stress can do more than you think. Probably also more than what we are being told, something even more nefarious was probably afoot but our FL may not have known. Possible evidence: The way she's treated by most of the people in this story.
Anyway, that whole thing smells too much like the...
I've given up on expecting people to appreciate unique concepts when Power Fantasy times 11 is the talk of the town including those dumb Crunchyroll awards.
Reading all these comments about the anime and how it usually never tell the full story makes it sadder for me that Endo & Kobayashi's anime does tell the whole story while the manga got screwed over within sight of the finish line...
Is it wrong that I think people are focussing too much on the so-called message than the very, very obvious alpha bitch who has nothing but bad intentions?
We have already had the outwardly alpha bitch who actually means well. This woman doesn't.
The duality of man.
You've got the fans of Flowery Path Of Evil where the gap is more visibly obvious, and you've got this reaction here.
For what it's worth I kept waiting for there to be a correction but it didn't come. Also the last few pages felt like "Oh crap too much time on setup, spend...
Sort of reminds me of "Always a catch". FL was set up as the heir because she was the strongest child with regards to their family martial arts techniques. Then the parents had a boy and the father, pretty rudely, tells her that she's no longer needed as the heir and he gets beaten up by the...
The guy was flaky as hell if he was chasing another relationship so willingly. He's supposed to be educated in running the land/country/whatever, he failed.
You probably forgot the manga introduced the other schools a long time ago since that was chapter 201. Definitely not out of nowhere.
I think Leiji and the other of the three grandsons of the Great 3 were introduced even long before that.