I don't really think he deserves the redemption arc, but it'd hardly be a redemption ARC if he deserved one from the start, wouldn't it?
Besides, it's a decent break from Everything Goes Right For Ceres, which is likely to continue until this series ends.
To be fair, she has that nickname because her fiancees keep dying.
I'm sure there's people with suspicions, but as far as anyone's able to confirm publicly it's just a streak of really bad luck, and even people that assume her fiancees are all being assassinated would probably assume it's a spy...
There's probably a cure in-universe, but it's either lore-only (thus Shachiku may not know enough details to do it) or it was optimized AROUND (because the cure adds enough time to a run that just avoiding needing it in the first place is optimal over trying to optimize the cure).
Kino does more in 2 panels than she's done in the entire last 10 chapters.
Don't blame people dropping this shit at all. If I wanted to watch nothing happen for a year and then suddenly the hero wins because they're that strong, Luigi Mario Party compilations have existed for a decade.
Was a tad rushed towards the end, but at least it got an ending that makes sense. Just feels like we got here faster than expected.
Congrats to the translator for finishing, as well.
"Writer tells same joke for 8 straight chapters and wonders why people are getting bored and annoyed when he goes to tell it a 9th time".
I think this hits the nail on the head. There's a lot of Fucking Nothing going on-panel for how much is happening in the background. We don't know anything...