We started off good. A broken man, reduced to a selfless machine by the weight of his responsibilities towards his country, being saved by the woman that he wanted nothing to do with at first. It's a simple romantic premise, but it's executed well, and the lovey-dovey stuff is cute. Then we went to the return home arc, where Livi has to prove himself to her family, which worked as both character development for him, and also plot development. Livi has never loved anyone the same way he does Nike, and so her family testing his limits is a good way of showing that he is completely serious about her. And right after this, RIGHT AFTER THIS, they start fucking it up. I could tolerate the desert prince arc, since it kinda showed that Nike, too, was completely serious about Livi. And then we moved on to the multiple kidnapping arcs, and I start to lose my faith in this. The fact that she got kidnapped is fine, since being the biggest country in existence comes with its own risks. But then, she got raped. Defiled. And guess what happens? Nothing. A common enemy takes their attention away from the fact that Livi's own wife got raped, and they never touch on it. Now moving on to this Al arc, she is doing even more stupid shit, and it's not even logical, nor realistic.
Author-san, this is trash. You took an empathetic human character, and turned her into a brainless, mindless, and soulless shell of a person. She has one thing on her head, and that is self-sacrifice. This is not how people work. As of chapter 136, she is going to REMOVE HERSELF FROM LIVI'S LIFE to save Al. Al? The murderer? The psychopath? A prominent cause of Livi's trauma? The one who has already killed thousands of people through natural disasters? You sure?
There is no realism. There is no humanity. Nike is no longer a character. She is a plot device. You did not fumble here. You did not do this by mistake. You purposefully threw away everything you had built up, in favour of creating an impossible person. If she does go through with this, and Al and Livi magically make up, I will have no, NO INTEREST, in anything else this mangaka makes.
edit: it has come to my attention, thanks to
@Diguinho, that Nike did not, in fact, get raped . It seems that he stopped right before doing so, but it doesn't stop the fact that he did it non-consenually. Instead of rape, it was molestation.