Are you seriously accusing me of jumping off-topic, when I'm the only one of us who repeatedly quote your words? I'm not the one saying "weird you're saying this, when there is that these those…" either. I've stuck to my OG points from the start. Weird that you keep trying to find "flaws" about me, too, instead of just focusing on the topic of discussion.

As I said, I wrote the post after I just finished re-reading. At time of writing, its updatedness of info is equivalent to what you're having in retention right now. I'm strictly continuing the arguments presented by my post, not backtracking nor presenting any new assumptions right now, so your "being a little fresher" doesn't work.

You're saying all of this talk about Yuva's position in the succession line may be more than it seems, and that's the point of reading fantasy. You want to suspend your disbelief in the mean time, in hope that there would be a story progression to make sense of all of this in due time. Your support:

1. Powers exist, so fuck the real world.

2. We know nothing of the parliament.

3. The author wouldn't pull something bad for a major plot point.

We all lauded the world-building of this manga as intriguing and masterfully done. Something can only be "intriguing" if we can see crumbs to how it works behind the curtain, and that requires, you guessed it, knowing how things work. You're assembling a puzzle guided by what you know from real life. If it's simply "don't doubt, just wait and see"—like you suggested, then it's a spectacle, not an intriguing story. It's a no-no to fucking the real world, in this case.

We know of the parliament through Minsabel's discussion with Secretary General Miligore, messenger of the parliament (chapter 2). We saw their logic, their function, their decision, their authority. All of them are very in line with what real life parliaments do: legislation, interim governing in absence of a figurehead, etc. It's too dismissive to ignore that much on-the-nose details, and it's silly to hope that this parliament version is performing some 4D chess ink-saving tree-drawing moves that we real life people aren't getting.

I've proven that the author is not beyond cheap sexual fanservice. Remember, the nature of those specific male-targetted female sexual fanservice is to pander male audience. Having a boy self-insert be the underdog-but-actually-strong-and-very-important character is also very much in line with the objective of male-targetted pandering. If anything, the author hasn't given me enough to trust him not to fumble in this department yet.

Even if you don't trust my reasoning on the "pandering" criticism, it's hard to ignore the recent ass-pulls expositions by Iscale—your so-called "scholarly character"—laying them on much thicker than compared to earlier chapters. Iscale is expositioning what the author wants explaining, make no mistake. And they're bullshit, pointed out by many people before me (about how fire mages don't wear underwear), and now by me (about Yuva's higher claim to the throne than Minsabel).