To be fair, if I'd end up a character in a novel and know how messy things are going to get, I'd want to nope out of the story too.
Wonder what going to happen to this novel's plot since the three main characters ran away from it?
The best way to describe this series is "Perhaps somewhat delusional minister ropes 4 idiot teenagers to reeanct the plot of his Prince X Julia fanfiction, but it doesn't go as planned."