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The reasoning for the major antagonist's, Grace (/Sellonia), whole devious plan is... really a dumb one: ... she's lazy.
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Summary from Turbostop (novelupdatesforum):
So Sellonia, knowing that she has happy future where she defeats demon king and gets all mls without anything bad happening to her, decided to:
- risk potentially injuring or losing her original body, when she's not in control of it.
- risk the not killing the demon lord (which did kinda happenned) and having all people that took part in subjugation dying, as well as whatever would've happened to the rest of the world after that.
- use some voodoo dark magic that not only could backfire on her, but would make both her and her family a lot of enemies once discovered.
All because she was lazy and didn't want to do it herself?
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I personally think it's the author that is lazy... The antagonist knows that she's in a novel. If you got isekaied as the MAIN CHARACTER, and YOU KNOW THAT EVERYTHING WILL WORK OUT FOR YOU, what would compel you to use black magic to transfer your soul out of your own body so that someone else can do the hard work for you??? How is that even A THOUGHT in your head like how wld you even come to that conclusion? she knows that if she stayed in the fmc's body (which is hers!) she will be safe because her happy ending is guaranteed! The author cannot convince me that this is a normal thought process, that this is a reasonable justification...
The author tried to do this 'ooo yhhh complex! Ooo plot twist! Bet you didn't see that coming ;)' when a simple reason cldve worked just fine. How many isekai stories have we read where a fmc transmigrates into an extra and takes the ogML?? The author wanted to do something bigger than themselves but lacks the creativity to think of something actually shocking and complex. It just leaves me thinking that the antagonist is really fxxking dumb when an antagonist is supposed to be intimidating and a worthy opponent.