All this convoluted and secretive shit either will be trophy worthy stuff that criminal novels authors could be jealous of, or this will all end up with such retarded issues, that the most stupid hentai "logic" will feel like a thesis about quantum entanglement stuff next to this.
We barely progresses like 60 days (329 days on timer on chapter one, 272 in this chapter) in 24 chapters, so this suggest that theres like 5 times that still ahead so like 120 more chapters of this borderline "forced" shit. As long as part of me wishes for stories to be long, I actually rather have more shorter ones without "forced" padding
. At least in style/genre like this one.