tbh i'd choose adjest; yeah romantica and desir loved each other before the return but after return, since romantica didnt know anything and desir was too busy saving the world, both adjest and romantica's feelings were kinda equal (in my perspective adjest was expressing her emotions a little better bc of her straightforwardness (and it was her first time learning about those emotions) unlike romantica who was behind the ''tsundere'' card, i couldnt feel the love in romantica it felt like a nice friendship until she watched desir's life.) until the end. thats why it made author choose an open ending sadly...
well for me: adjest + romantica > adjest > romantica > pram > any other girl > open ending
this is my ranking list for how ending should be. i would be able to say that ''oh this felt nice, perfect'' if it finished as adjest + romantica or adjest only with showing some after story about kids or something. it would be still fine if it was only romantica or pram or any other girl with some after story.
regrettably its open ending and that can clearly make me drop my rating to 9 from 10 for this story. bc, imo, even if there isnt romance tag on genres you r making a story 268 chapters long and develop romance aspects all the way to the end you should finish it to honor all that work. it made me feel like its incomplete, thats why its important for to finish romance part too in my perspective.
also its sad that author didnt write about pram x swan katarina i was waiting something from them too. anyway it was considerably long but a short journey for me since i started this when it was completed and finished it in 3 days i can say that i enjoyed it. thank you for the chapters and translations.