@animajunki123 hardly 22 chapters straight. More like several hundreds of them, considering the pacing of this manga relative to time-passing in her world. She supposedly has a backstory, meaning she has been mieruko-chan her entire life.
Though recently
has been worse for her, partly because her friend, partly because her new friend, and partly because she has had to constantly wonder what exactly she gave in exchange to the god (particularly after she made to connection to the countdown).
I really like this story, wish it updated faster. With how much you are made to pity and sympathize with her, it is rather hard to have the foreshadowed event creeping up so slowly. I bet next chapter is the one though, where we finally find out.