The 1st arc is easily one of the weakest in the entire story. After a few more chapters (or rather, a year based on how often we get updates) the story's themes will diverge completely from Youjo Senki's, both in writing and circumstances.
I hope in the coming years as this series gets adapted...
I came back to this series after 2 years to see if it was still being worked on only to see that there are in fact a lot of chapters. It's just that none of them are translated...