"Not sure how I should feel about the prince, he is good? He is bad? Mmmm"

He's filler.

When my opponent is FF1 level threat

Surprised this hasn't been axed.

Yamcha'd

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Kiritsugu Emiya School of Warfare lesson 1: Only an idiot attacks head on. When such an idiot arrives, use claymores. And when he defends against the claymores, that's when you hit the remote Bettys.

Do they kill the CO? or is this passive torture porn because the author's angry at their little gamer sibling that likely spent all their dad's money on gaccha bullshit?

Tanya has better sense than to follow a loudmouthed fool looking for somewhere to die. In fact, this CO is the exact person who got put into an easily-targeted pill box.

"dubious rate of success" You mean to say monkey's paw, as that's the only means such a fairytale setting would boobytrap the win conditions. Which, hilariously, is the core of the issue—actors in a fairytale don't have time or luxury to be indecisive on any matter. They either act, or fail the quest & doom their objective. But again, the saving grace is that this is a harem fantasy and so he won't be punished for his indecisive, milquetoast indecision as a hero of a fairytale would be.

And yes, soldiers ARE incompetent walking into a campaign green. That's exactly why the veterans on field break them down even further from the training habits that will likely get them killed. Anyone that's done a tour in a combat zone will be quick to tell you that. That makes it even more important, bringing the parallel back to the story, to pay attention to the clues and work to genuinely solve the case. MC wanted to spare the oldest's feelings and keep her from making a memory she'd regret, but it's not as if he had some clever insight, nor progressed any work investigating the curse. He's been too busy playing house. He just didn't want to see her crying.

He's not making the strong decisions, he's making defensive choices. That cowardice could end up costing him.

Wait. I just realized the sisters are stand-ins for Tatsumaki & Fubuki. Holy shit dude really is just copying.

https://youtu.be/sM5nfsbC760?si=dvIvpFGa5UwVJHi8

"Fluffy mantle"

Even capping Caped Baldy. damn.

Wait...how long do trees live again?

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Not that deep. It's OPM's skit with slightly less funny and far more lewd.

"Realistic"

You've read One Punch Man. You know exactly how this is gonna go.

Your "next chapter" only demonstrated just how feckless he is in his current state. You're banking hard on the oldest confessing to a brash decision when even he fully-admits her motivations and decisions were not incorrect. And he, himself ended up torn on whether he made the correct choice in talking her down. Given who his ultimate enemy is (and I don't mean the Witch of Ivy), he's gambling badly. The saving grace is that this is some harem story, so the urgency of invasion is not super-prominent. He needs that challenge desperately.

This ain't math, though. It's a story. The transition of one scene to the next is entirely up to the author. And any author worth their salt is going to be diligent about creating enough details from scene to scene that their reader has a sense of time going one page to the next for every event. And the fact I even called it into question means that the writer done goof'd. Unless caster's really amateur hour, aside of MP saving there's no reason to not fly himself to his destination.

Just find & read/watch Nanami/Nami Sprite.

You're welcome.

The hole in your logic is it applies to the carpet, and still ignores my point. The only logical argument in regard of the opening comment you could have made, someone already made for you:

"... most of the times a flight spell is extremely mana-hungry, and he's about to fight an enemy that's actually stronger than him, going with empty mana reserves would be a bad move"

Wanting to conserve strength at least serves some logic. You, however, fired back as if different objects going at different speeds would be a factor between MC flying and MC using the carpet. Memory erodes as obviously I haven't touched this book in months, but the mechanics to my memory for flight in this story aren't broken down. But if a carpet can be counted on to expedite the trip from point A to point B, then so obviously could a caster doing it all his own. Given no reason to believe carpet is different from caster, there's no reason to assume magic flight of a carpet will be different from magic flight of a caster, aside of MP consumption.

That his targets started out way before him is irrelevant. It's still just a stall technique for the writer to stretch out the saga another chapter or two. If I have to rescind anything, it's attempting to follow your silly argument over speed to begin with.

You don't have to with the shit you're spewing. Just don't direct it at me from now on & we're square.

No one's changed the argument, you're just upset I'm not taking your thoughts as gospel. I don't have to. And you're free to stop replying. In conclusion on speed:

Teleporting > Flying > Horseback > Running > Walking > Crawling

They're "princesses". Technically-speaking, all they are meant to be is simple components for the wellfare of the kingdom. Putting the romance entirely on the shelf for a moment, the facts are MC wasted days playing house because the girls were either pissed at him, wanted to play with him like a toy, were untrusting of him, or just wanted to see the pot stir. Investigation of the grounds & state of the kingdom should have taken place immediately after their safety was assured, but this is a harem story so we get harem hijinks while the plot unfolds quietly in the background.

I get it. The girls all show a smidgen of actual character slightly beyond the store brand standard harem heroine, so you feel you need to defend both them and the feckless MC. It doesn't change a thing, however. Allowing the author has semblance of sense and doesn't get run over by both editor & ratings, they will show this hesitation as a preamble to a later character conflict MC will have no choice but to confront directly. For now, given lack of extra chapters, I'm allowed to feel scrutinizing of a coward MC until the plot actually makes his decisions a source of actual conflict.