I thought this was winding down to a conclusion. From the last chapter everything looked to be neatly falling into place. Leon giving up his reward to save his sister and her reverse harem from the guillotine then just living in the countryside and the girls (after having bowed their heads) getting "punished" by marrying off to MC. Even if the LN/WN goes much further I thought that'd have been a nice place for the magna to stop.
But this is... kinda confusing? For one it's somewhat nice they brought their other lives back up, but reminding us of the fact the person whose just the literal worst is canonically the older adult with her own daughter doesn't help much. Also didn't really understand where they were implying going from there. Like what good does it do for her to admit herself she dislikes reverse harems after all this time when that same group of idiots have caused so much trouble in her name? Then there's the confessions from the girls... the way that was handled was just weird. So like they finally clearly confessed and the MC couldn't avoid or ignore it... and they hit him for saying he likes both of them? Like via our standards I can understand that, but they had already prepared to both marry him and one be his concubine (again last chapter). Then we end up at the massive rank boost which pulled the wrong out from everyone's feet. I'm guessing now he'll be "expected" to do certain things and can't just F off and never be heard from again.
Really though my biggest problem was just how time flowed this chapter. Like it started with him waking up following last chapter (he also stopped being angry at his sister pretty fast), then flash forwarded to him talking alone with his sister, then flashbacked back to the confession which happened sometime after when he woke up, went back to talking to his sister sometime after the confession, and then gave an undisclosed time skip (probably like a day or so) to the reward ceremony following the conflict. Like did the author deliberately want to give readers a headache trying to follow what's going on? What in the world was gained from that. And I'm still hung up on missing transitions that shouldn't matter that much (like where was he when talking to his sister and how and why and when did they go there?). That could've just been a panel had the author made events linear from the start (wake up, confession, get slapped, go to wherever to talk alone with saintess/sister, intermission stating a few days passed and rewards/punishments were given out for conflict, cut to MC getting his).
I remember really liking this series once upon a time 😭.