What do you mean? This is basically a perfect place to end a season? A major arc has been completed, and they showcased some of the long-term roadblocks that are going to be in store for the MC for the next arc. What are you looking for for "a good end to a season"?

Bet the dad is gonna look like the male MC, bringing the whole thing full circle.

You're right. I went back to double check, and it mentioned it being something Hrungnir wanted to tell, whereas I initially remembered it as something Smir wished to tell. I still think it's an odd thing for him to ask for, but I'll acknowledge it's less bizarre now than it was under the Smir message interpretation. Apologizing in person is going to be more impactful than apologizing through a third party like this. What is meaningfully supposed to happen if MC tells Smir his dad who died so long ago asked him to say sorry on his behalf?

Yeah. Though it's kinda fucking weird that he's like "tell my son I'm sorry", when we're seeing the memory of his son. So it's like... tell him yourself? He literally heard what you said, or else it wouldn't be in the memory. He's literally right there.

Although I've read a lot of different specifics of the story, they range from Zeus giving explicit permission with a warning Demeter wouldn't like it, to being an accomplice. Zeus was pretty much fine with the whole Hades-Persephone thing, it was just her mother that started raising hell.

Some speculation on what's going on with the hint. She gave three words—seemingly in English, that or it was amazingly redrawn—and said they would become a sentence. Each word is related to the MC, but I think that's a red herring at best, and it's not the meaning of the words that is meant to be interpreted, but the letters used for them. This is also the reason why "shinier" seems so out of place. It might be tangentially related to him to fit the "hint" impression, but it's really just to get some good letters involved for the anagram sentence. For it to specifically be "a sentence", I expect either "are" or "is", with (Noun) is/are X.

I'm a rebel, what can I say? Less facetiously, "positive relationship/rivalry" implies an either/or situation, whereas I was more interested in emphasizing both at the same time.

It's not just you, it fell off hard. Pacing issues were a complete mess—her trauma was introduced in like the previous arc, just so it could be overcome in this one rather than incremental progress. The situation itself was contrived—allies not arriving when the whistle was sounded, treadmill of "oh that guy you killed wasn't the final boss, I'm the final boss!". Raon's cringy-ass dialogue that feels way out of character for him to directly say just to some guy that's dying, clearly just meant for the audience to hear and spotlight her. The weird combat tactics he used which put her in danger—if he hadn't separated so far from her, he would be able to slash at the back of anyone trying to attack her, and present a zone of threat that made enemies have to deal with him first and allow him to use his fire better. The utterly bizarre hostage situation in the first place—why was one outside in the cold, and the other farther inside? Why keep either of them at all?
This whole arc has been a mess and a half, full of contrivances purely for the sake of driving a specific plot beat rather than a compelling story.

Most likely the Wandering Martial God is a being who rose up from nothingness to become something. In the past life, he favored MC because the MC had the same kind of terrible situation, but three dantians being open implies a foundation in another martial art—which is typical of having resources, other teachers, and so on. Basically, the constellation is a pauper who favors paupers and wants them to succeed (hence not asking much in return), and then got mad because MC looked like a pauper, but isn't actually one (in this timeline).

It's quite possible she's training to be a swordsman in part because she has that kind of trauma. She's constantly mentioning her desire to change herself. She doesn't like that she's traumatized, or that she is/was someone who could be traumatized like that in the first place.

Yes. Specifically, each of his regressions was the Rune of Regression, incremented. So the first timeline would've been 0/100, the second would be 1/100, and so on. For this timeline, since he got 100/100, he got a title instead.
It can be a bit tricky to follow because the end of this chapter is a flashback to before combat, rather than perfectly chronological. He checks his status window after all of the combat—"ah, come to think of it, there's a title I received earlier that I never saw in my past 99 tries"—and then flashbacks to when he opened his rune like everyone else did.

Everyone received a random rune before the combat even began, and his happened to be the Rune of Regression. It's not a plot hole in this case.

Looks like Return of the SSS-Class Ranker.

This is the grand commander without the benefit of being a regressor—which also means this is the grand commander during her first life. Right now she's letting everyone walk over her and is fairly timid, but something happened that made her strong-willed enough to go through the apocalypse as many times as she did. She had a foundation in the academy before knowledge of the future, and I'm fairly certain that these events (and the instructor) helped build the foundation.

I think if Ronan was the one being bullied, she would have largely looked the other way as long as he didn't cause permanent injury. The issue here is that he's fighting for the assistant's sake—and despite her telling him not to, at that. If he earns the ire of all of the classmates and effectively declares that bullying her is a weakness for him, she'll just become a bigger target for others who want to get back at him but know they can't beat him.
A real-world comparison would be like if someone's dad or older sibling gets involved. Sometimes it works, but often it will just breed further resentment and escalate the bullying further. If she wants to stop being bullied, she needs to stand up for herself, not have Ronan do it for her. I can empathize with his emotions, but the instructor definitely made the right call here in stopping him, even if her turning a blind eye to the bullying itself is a lot more dubious and questionable.

Keep in mind, the instructor is the one who helped turn the Grand Commander into the person Ronan respected. But the thing is, it's not just in terms of power, but in terms of the respect she garnered from her subordinates, as well as her position. Being treated like that helps to develop humility, and then further pushes humility on those who look down on her once she gets strong enough to defeat them.
The instructor isn't going to coddle people. She let one of the best in the class get his ass kicked without stepping in for a moment, despite Ronan basically beating him senseless in a manner that could barely be called a "duel". If she allowed Ronan to beat up the rest of the class, though, that would actually do more harm to Ronan and the assistant than not.

You can tell a lot about a person through their actions. He was determined to fight despite how everyone else forfeited, but there wasn't any pre-battle trashtalk about how he would be the one to stop Roman in his place, or that he didn't believe the stories, and so on. Add to it the words of the crowd (which Roman is able to hear due to his increased senses) talking about how Fernando's fundamentals were great but this was as far as he'd go "with effort alone", it wouldn't be too hard for someone like Roman to get an idea of his mindset and motivations. He may not know outright if he's right, or if Fernando will go along with what he says, but there's no harm in probing and offering; if Fernando responds belligerently, Roman can just beat him up afterwards.

Flashy and good chapter overall, but I can't help but to feel there's some wasted potential here. So far, Rokan basically overpowers each and every thing he comes across, so there's very little doubt whether he's going to win or not even when the odds get super stacked against him. It would have been more compelling if he narrowly lost, or even had a draw, and he ended up developing a positive relationship-slash-rivalry with Jaros. Jaros seemed to be a battle maniac himself, and the story could've been better with him still in it rather than tossed away for some instant gratification chapters.

Interestingly enough, I think the defense could have potentially argued self-defense or emotional response on the basis of perceived stalking and prior abuse. She clearly made an attempt to leave the household and get away from him, and yet he deliberately showed up at her place of work to confront her. I'm not sure if it would fly during this time period or in a country where filial piety is so strong, though.

I'm usually a bit wary about reading .5 chapters, but I'm grateful I decided to read this one. It's nice to see how despite how much of an adult she acts and the weight of what she's attempting to accomplish, she still has childish pursuits and a pure, non-financial dream.