Glad to see this continuing to get translated, sad that this chapter was a trainwreck. I'm obviously far from alone on that.
Writing-wise it seemed really awkward. We get Edwin introduced near the start, he seems like he'll be an important character, he even proposes to marry Bridget...and then that's it, he falls out of the story completely. It's like the writer was setting up a harem for Briget but swerved because a one-shot doesn't have enough time.
The prince being a manipulative asshole who actually destroyed Bridget's dreams is then supposed to be the character we're happy she gets with? Other than the fact that she respected him as a fighter (and pretty much only that) there was no chemistry between them. And she just gets railroaded--montaged, really--into marrying him...
Like I guess we're supposed to see this as a good end because now she gets to be queen? But she never wanted that. The only reason she even wanted to be anything but a commoner was to marry her crush, who isn't this guy.
In summary, we see a man manipulate everything around a woman to destroy her hopeful romance and force her into a life she never wanted to be in, and the story wants us to treat this as a fairytale ending.
Absolutely one of the least satisfying stories in this series, perhaps to the point of being outright misogynistic. Are the mangaka okay?? 😔
