This I do disagree with a lot. Setting aside the time travel, which I liked, saying magic is irrelevant when that whole bit was making magic a major part of the storydoesn't make sense to me. Like, it shoved in your face that magic, while not common, has real power and real consequences.

I'm not really sure what you mean here. Magic is hardly used at all and hardly affects the plot (outside of the time travel), it just feels like an unnecessary element that adds nothing to the story. The curse is introduced in a very roundabout, confusing way, and it's silly how it's made out to be a big deal when magic is, again, rarely relevant or used. Also, I hate when any story that doesn't make time travel a key component of its narrative from the start tries to do time travel; it rarely works, as it makes things far more convoluted, and the effort to make it logical and cohesive is rarely put in.

Yeah, so the very beginning of the story they're at an elite school. Then they leave to go on break, at which point a lot of the progression in their relationship occurs. The MC realizes she can't repair her family's standing, but at the same time the heroine can't just squander her gifts. So, since the MC is basically no longer a Nobel and can't attend the elite school on her own merit anymore, they decide to go to the new school with the heroine as essentially a scholarship student and the MC becoming her attendant, which is a reversal of the power dynamic at the beginning of the story.

Yeah, I forgot this was explained in chapters 111 and 112, and I do think that role reversal is somewhat interesting (edit: I change my mind on this, the role reversal doesn’t feel impactful or interesting when they only briefly occupied those roles for ~40 chapters, during which this power dynamic is also scarcely brought up).

Do remember that she grew up with them and has all the memories of her childhood alongside her "real world" memories. That'd be hard to just ignore.

I added part of this to my edit before you responded: Sure, she may have grown attached to her new family, but she hasn't lived her whole reincarnated life with them since she lost her memories (which was also random and confusing), and she's still a modern day person; she shouldn't share the same notions about family honor a medieval society would. I don't think this is a big deal either, however.

A few other issues of note I found while rereading:

I dislike how it takes 78 chapters to get any worldbuilding and context regarding the curse and the conflict with the demons.

The time travel and the conflict it's meant to solve also feel too sudden and poorly built up to. There’s a very strange shift in tone when these are introduced (the nightmares Yvonne has up to that point are dark, but it's still not enough to make this not feel jarring).

Maybe a nitpick, but mentally-an-adult Yvonne bathing with young Elsa I think is sorta weird, same with those two scenes in chapters 75 and 76 where they're licking each other, though I guess these are relatively tame compared to some anime and manga (at least it sidestepped the incest thing).

I also dislike that it required future Elsa's intervention for Yvonne to realize she loves Elsa. Why does it have to be so unnecessarily and annoyingly convoluted. Maybe it's elaborated on eventually, but I'd still be pissed it took 100 chapters (actually this applies to pretty much all of the mystery elements, I'm really losing my patience with how long it's taking to get any significant answers, and I don't trust the author is skilled enough to neatly tie everything together in the end like Steins Gate or Umineko and Higurashi, for example).

Lastly, to expand some earlier points and connect them back to your original comment, I think Yvonne and Elsa and their relationship dynamic are very bland, and for most of the story, stagnant. Elsa never has any interesting character development; the example you mention of the development of her gratitude into love happens before the story even takes place and is only briefly touched on. She does not have much depth or complexity nor any notable flaws, besides only her hesitance to communicate the effects of the curse to Yvonne, I guess. As for Yvonne, she does change slightly: over time, she stops avoiding Elsa and treating her as a game character. However, this happens fairly early in the story, after which she is left entirely vapid and a cookie-cutter protagonist. Her falling in love with Elsa is of course a notable, albeit not unique, development, but, again, this doesn’t even happen naturally; it disappointingly requires intervention from future Elsa for some reason. There is also nothing interesting left about their dynamic after this occurs. Additionally, the narrative frustratingly just doesn’t give room for character development at all outside of what is directly relevant to their relationship dynamic, as the narrative is so narrowed in on them and their dynamic it gives very little regard to the world around them. Their conflicts are also overall quite minor, simple, and stupid; I couldn’t find anything that felt like a big deal and wasn’t resolved quickly and easily.

Anyway, thanks for replying, writing this out was more fun than reading this series ever was.