I feel like... I wish the author trusted his ability to write a good story. Sure, it might flop, he might mis-step, but I’m not sure how much he’ll grow as an author if he over-relies on genre conventions.
True, I guess we did get some progress with this last arc, but I can’t help but feel like the only thing that’s happened since Elf’s confession/proclamation has been the introduction of her artist. More than that has happened, if I think about it, but if the author wanted to condense the chapters since then by half I think it’d be a cinch.
That said, thanks for the chapter(s), I was interested in where this story was going.