I'm sorry but what's going on? This is like 3 different ongoing plots that are suddenly tossed out of nowhere.
The butlers were just stalling the heroes for...reasons?
So basically, everyone who isn't part of the "core combat group" is completely useless, huh?
They better just find an island and stay there for the rest of the manga. They'll just get in the way.
Yeah, and that's why I hate bait-&-switch stories.
It's one thing to include a bait-&-switch in a story, but it's a whole OTHER thing when the story ITSELF is a bait-&-switch.
Like I said before, it's not a detective story or a Satori story, the only thing it is that's in the title is a FOUL.
I dunno, the old artist part still had the story twirling it's thumbs and explaining things with answers the reader never would have a clue about. Such as the very fact that an evil spirit that was never hinted at did it.
It's just that it became far more blatant after the artist change. Having...
That was a fluke, she was lucky that her powers were the kind that could exploit her. And I bet that if the two had a rematch, she'd lose.
Kinda like having a situation where one would need to ask a fish where a treasure is or something.
Definitely a failure for the manga as a whole.
This kind of bait-&-switch only works if it's done before the end of the chapter. You DON'T make readers wait until the crucial point before pulling the rug. You either give them what they came for or make it clear from the first chapter what kind...