Nah, it's definitely the time between new chapters that's the problem. Well, that, and that they're all so short. To be honest, I'm at the point of thinking that the lengths of chapters, overall fairly average quality, and slow release schedule isn't really worth it. The story just hasn't been consistently compelling and interesting enough to overcome all of those issues, and I've waited long enough for that to change to know it isn't likely to any time soon. I feel like the story lacks direction, like it's just sort of rambling along from minor development to minor development, and the narration style and typically apathetic and uninterested attitudes of so many of the characters- though it's particularly egregious with the main character, where most of the perspective is drawn from- seem to serve to downplay what probably should feel like big and momentous events.

I once promised to riot if we never got a resolution to Rosa's story- do I have to follow through?

It's always a little irksome to see words like sigh within quotations. I mean, it's fine when it's deliberate, but that's a pretty specific character trait to have, saying sigh instead of actually sighing. See, when a word is within quotations, like "this", it is intended to be interpreted as being spoken aloud by someone, so when you put "sigh" in quotations, you're not describing the act of huffing out an audible sigh, you're describing a character speaking the actual word, they are saying "sigh".

This is not an example of a healthy relationship, at all. In fact, it's quite abusive, and I find the way Kayda and Kitsu tend to interact pretty offputting.

What? Making the ice blade flexible is dumb? No, not doing so would be dumb, and having a master smith say it's dumb, is dumb. The way I see it, making an ice blade hard and inflexible is kinda like trying to make a sword out of titanium, the metal is hard, yes, but it's also extremely brittle. It shatters too easily to make for a good weapon. There's a reason bronze, iron, and finally steel are pretty much the only materials used to make non-decorative sword blades, they might be relatively soft as metals go, and blunt faster than a harder metal would, but better to have a weapon become blunt over the course of a battle than to outright shatter half way through. Same deal with a magical ice based weapon, removing the flexibility of the material in favour of simply making it harder is only going to make it MORE prone to shattering, not less. Make it harder, sure, but not at the expense of flexibility.

I knew it! From the description of the foreign commoner that Mikheil was said to have fallen for and what she put him through, combined with the way this story's narrative works, it had to be Cass!

"Georgie, Georgie, Georgie of the jungle, Watch out for that tiger!" So I see the young miss is starting to take after her grandfather in mind, and her mother in temperament (don't let her hear anyone say that though)

Man, what a chapter. Looks like Fred's no longer Rosa's favourite adult family, and I wonder if that will actually affect him in any way? About time grandpa got *some* recognition too, for all that he acts the fool, he definitely cares, and shows it too, something that can't be said for his son in law. Not sure how much it means to Amar that his friends tried to stop him being sent away, but at least he's not totally alone in a strange new place.

Theres just something so relaxing about reading this story.

Oh dear, the hamster really went into overdrive on this... what the hell did you feed it? Concentrated caffeine and guarana mixed with super cocaine?

The melancholy in this chapter is so thick it's almost tangible. I just about had to physically bat it away from my face!

I'm not sure that's physically possible... 6 meters or thereabouts of intestines, all filled with food in various stages of digestion, and the stomach, with all that acid, (bad acid reflux there) there's no way it's sanitary or comfortable... but I am sure I don't want any explanations, and in fact would like to be thinking about it anymore! Where's the brain bleach?!

Ahh, that does make sense, and I was certainly expecting a nation of bigotry like that would have means of keeping their summoned heroes in line, though I wasn't sure if Hina had escaped all of those controls or not. Really depends on the magic system of this world, whether they can fold stuff like that into the initial summoning or if there's a separate process that occurs either immediately or shortly after the summoned have arrived.

It certainly feels a little like Hina has no free will, so much so that in the earlier chapters I had to wonder if her mind was being magically manipulated. Intellectually, I can understand it, but as someone who isn't submissive like that, it feels a little like something's wrong, if that makes sense.

"It's ok. Maybe not right now, but it's going to be ok. Don't cry?" Why does young JJ remind me of Amar? I mean, I get that it's probably just how the author portrays the way kids speak, and I'm pretty sure at one point it was explicitly stated that Amar isn't JJ, but dammit, if I cant have a happily ever after for JJ and Meng, then I can at least pretend that Amar is JJ reincarnated, just without memories. At least if and until Rosa gets to the point of having a love interest, which I expect her to deny with all the fervor she did with JJ when she was Meng.

Pretty sure it's the opposite, and they're punishing whoever is in charge of the slavers, and that will probably take far more time than their deserving victim(s) would like.

Oh dear. Sounds like another Ventrella on the way.

Ahh, Meng. Osmium? I'm sure there's a denser element available. Neutronium, maybe? No doubt anyone reading this knows what I'm implying here. So adorable though, and at least Rosa has shown signs of self awareness now, even if that's gonna hurt to read when she finally admits what everyone always knew.

Oh my god they're the same. Just Rosa has extra memories... Seriously, even the obsession with 'shinies'?!

You know, I think I'm done. I was already leery for a variety of reasons, not least of which being when she became insane and masochistic, but going back to being a goblin? Not a decision I approve of. Not that my approval necessarily matters, I just want my reasoning for dropping this to be known.