Ugg I had hopes for this. So far it felt like a solid 7, with the chance to rise up to an 8 or 9 if the conflicts laid out so far were smartly handled, but this? I'm sorry but you can't have a villain this stupid as a duke. Seriously. And then to have the rescue be so easy? The duke was preparing for war. He should have had a whole company, if not a battalion, stationed nearby. There should have been no way any small force could have threatened him. Also, the offer of marriage should have been a "decide in >24hr or we declare war" sort of gambit. Sigh this is so stupid. I expected more from a Josei manga. If the mangaka wanted a mustache twirling villain it should have been a minor character. Well I don't have much hope of this series ever rising above a 5-6 now.