Hoping she doesn't get too vindictive and sticks to just outshining him. Either he gets his shit together and becomes a decent person (though still not head of the family), or he ends up sidelined in the family like she was.
"I suddenly thought of a good strategy"
1. explosion
2. immediately get captured
3. survive and withstand torture by complete accident
4. fail escape attempt
5. implausible surprise rescue
Everyone's freaking out about the carriage ride and I'm still laughing at "NO FUCKING WAY." Only took 48 chapters for someone to even remotely consider the possibility that this square peg might fight in that square hole.
@Kampfarsch I guess I was mixing it up with the other manga about an aloof overpowered "villainess". This one can't use magic and is apparently completely helpless if the spirit king decides to wander off. Still, that was a weird moment, and this chapter was full of lame cliches.
The girl who went to war and immobilized an entire army suddenly can't handle some random creep, just for the sake of generic rushed romance? I didn't think the writer was this much of a hack.
They're leaving a lot of things unsaid in this chapter and it's confusing a lot of people.
1. The fake ID doesn't have to be stolen, it could be someone completely made up through record falsification (too conspicuous for A rank) or the pseudonym of an actual 3-star magician who works with them...