@duskyloltun Not only is it still the first arc, this is quite honestly not what I was hoping from this series.
I like isekai series with family as a theme because I like to see the reincarnated protags either get revenge on the shitty family, or learn to love and get along with them. With some cool spirit animals on the side.
This series would have benefited from splitting this arc up a little, because quite honestly having to deal with this two-faced duke AND the flip-flop these kids feel about their new family is splitting the chapters so that very little progression happens in either plot. The first arc should have had a main focus on learning how to deal with their new political situation, or figuring out how to mesh as a family.
The politics are poorly explained, so quite honestly all the villains feel poorly written. The family situation is just angsty to be angsty for...honestly no reason other than the "royal family is bad at communicating like normal people" which again makes no sense to me because the politics are poorly explained! There is no logical reason that these actual human beings who are in charge of ruling a country that presumably has commoners are this disconnected to issues like this and have successful foreign relations. Like this family deserves to be overthrown for being this insensitive and fostering a toxic, overly-privileged nobility.