Tea, sword , katana ..............etc etc
Writer goes pages after pages describing how tea is made , how this or that tea smells.
Very few lines of actual plot.
If you omit "item" description , you can finish the novel's each volume within 2.5 hours.
For the first few volumes, I loved the ln. Still reading it because I want to know how the story ends.
Nice to know I'm not the only one utterly frustrated by this author. Quite often you find yourself reading pages of pointless tangents and tedium between two lines of dialogue or two thoughts in a character's head. Not only that, but you often end up back exactly where you started. He'll drone on forever about different possibilities, tactics, reasons for why something happened or might happen, only to leave you with "...but that's not what happened. This other thing happened." Oh ok...
Then there's the flat characters that only exist to validate MCs existence and greatness...
Asuka is the worst, literally just a carboard cutout damsel in distress that's there as r***bait. She's their precious family, totally helpless, untrained, and unsuited to this ruthless world, but hey, why rescue her when you can leave her in the hands of strangers, for years btw.
The logic in most of the decisions and justifications the characters make in this series makes me want to rip my hair out, straight up.
Sunken cost fallacy is a bitch, though, man... I can't bring myself to stop at this point either, I'm just furiously skimming through this steaming pile to finish the series and move on.
Strangers that see this post, if you're like me and force yourself to the finish line--stay away from this series, for the love of god, I beg you...