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VERY HOT TAKE. if no one's going to talk about Kivia, then I will. Time to take on what might be the third most popular character ¡¡¡LET'S BREAK THE DOWNVOTE RECORD!!! A long, monumental, boundless, and apocalyptic cosmos-shattering testament of unadulterated, absolute, and eternal hatred directed entirely toward Kivia. below 😄

Our first impression of Kivia is that she is a formidable warrior with nerves of steel and a capable commander of her unit. which quickly goes down the drain because he orders all his troops to commit suicide, and then in the mines, they would have killed all his men if it weren't for Xylo. That's fine. It can happen to anyone. But it's not okay to be presented as a serious character and then fall in love with a guy you met three days ago. (ooooh, cool. I've definitely never seen anything like that before) FINE! It can happen to anyone. >!Another proof of just how terrible Kivia is as a commander and a reserve Xylo. While Xylo had to wipe out an entire army with nothing but 10 men armed with sticks and four grapes to eat, Kivia had a whole damn army backing her up and 3,000–5,000 men under her command. Guess who had to retreat, and whose mission and whose ass were saved by the other one. That’s right. Kivia!<

>!If we compare kivia to the others, she's just a low-quality backup Xylo, which is why I thinks it's absurd that she was sentenced to be a hero when that team consist only of the elite of the elite in every area of specialization. "She was sentenced to hero because of her ideals, not because she was the best!" Bro? Do you really believe that? didn't you see Venetim, Dotta, Jayce, Tsav, and Tatsuya? These guys would never risk so much as a fingernail for anyone, but their heads might explode if they don't do it!<

>!Nepotism. Literally, Kivia used the last hero slot thanks to her uncle, even though she was the best at who-knows-what. Nepotism. They could have used that last spot for a real combat medic, one of the countless demon king they've locked up in the basement, or or or I DON'T KNOW! Anything would be better than an incopetent who can't do anything on her own (let's be honest, if it weren't for her ex-soldiers backing her up, she'd be well an truly dead at least 300 times over) and a simp! NEPOTISM!<

The problem is that Kivia was born and raised by priests who love the goddesses with all their hearts. But what does she do? Keep looking down on him and distancing herself? Nah. The most logical thing, of course, is to throw all her beliefs out the window and fall in love with the guy who committed the worst crime against humanity: killing a goddess. the symbol of his faith and that of everyone !!!!!!IN 3 DAYS!!!!!! (At least. In harem anime, or in any where the girl falls in love with the MC based on just a single line of dialogue. They fall in love with someone ordinary and single... NOT SOMEONE WHO HAS A FIANCÉE AND IS THE BIGGEST S O B AMONG ALL THE S O B)

she justifies everything with a “you don't look like someone who would kill a goddess”......... but who does he think he's talking to? Does he think Tsav was condemned to hero for running a yellow light? Norgalle for missing a shot at the trash can and being found guilty of polluting the environment? Are you telling me that Xylo being guilty of the worst crime is just a misunderstanding????

Well well well. She can forgive him in record time. It could happen, right? What I won't forgive is that in just a week she's already starting to harass Xylo (something that happens more in LN) and meddling between two fiancés. What she overheard (on the sly, of course) was that Xylo and Frenci didn’t get married solely because he was convicted. That Frenci refuses to let him go and that he’ll work on getting his pardon so they can get married.

Now is when you say, “The whole marriage was arranged to continue the Forbartz lineage” and now is when I ask you: Does Kivia know that? NO. We learn all of that through Xylo's thoughts.

So yes. Kivia is determined to break up the engagement between the two of them. I can't respect someone like that.

It's not over yet, buddy. Like I told you, she keeps harassing Xylo. She's getting possessive, pushing the other girls away from Xylo, and arguing with Frenci for calling Xylo her fiancé even though Frenci has every right to. Kivia even has the nerve to try to attack her, if it weren't for Xylo stepping in between them. She's forcing interactions with Xylo as much as she possibly can. (Does she really think, in her twisted mind, that Xylo is her boyfriend? dude...)

I wouldn't have anything against Kivia, as long as her story doesn't focus exclusively on Xylo. From her perspective, 95% of the time she's talking about and thinking about Xylo, and the remaining 5% she's upset because he's not with her. I was expecting a serious commander who commands respect, not a tsundere Amy Rose who's constantly begging for Xylo's attention. Or at least, AT LEAST!!!!! let their relationship develop naturally, not by force and with NTR involved. >!Kivia was convicted of murdering her uncle, her subordinate (good idea to bring just one, btw) and conspiracy. What does Xylo do? Suspect that she’s just another one of the Coexistence (those bastards are everywhere) and keep Teoritta away from her (just as she did to him), because all the evidence suggests that she was the one who put them in danger in the first place and that she was the spy? (Don't forget that Xylo hates these bastards with every fiber of her soul, body, and mind because of what happened to Senerva.) That would have been the most logical thing to do. Unfortunately, Xylo didn’t care about the spoiler warning and saw everything that actually happened, and he tells her right away. How is that not forced? Damn, the development of their relationship happened so fast and with such obvious plot armor that it’s impossible to swallow. The plot armor is so blatant that reading volume 6 was a real headache and a tedious experience. Luckily, it was worth it thanks to Rhyno and the peak ending!<

I find all the characters in the series quite endearing and original, with qualities that really make them stand out, and they were a huge relief for me. Except for Kivia—I was expecting something new from her, just like with the others, but she ended up being just another in the already long list of super-generic tsunderes and a new definition of “an easy one” And in MY OPINION, she's only loved because she's pretty, and she's the only woman who will appear regularly in the series.

>!I also think it's because Kivia was the first to die. It was her fault that the wave of deaths on the team started. Do you have any idea how many tears I shed? And the worts part is that next on the list is mi sweet little chick, whom I love with al my heart...!<

His only character development is “Oh, heroes aren't so bad after all” And they say this change in perspective is good character development. Excuse me, what? Not even close. it's just yet another example of what a terrible character Kivia is. Let's go over the members of the Criminal Hero Unit (Yes, We all know that Xylo is actually a little angel who, like Norgalle, has been treated badly by life. But not for the STBH society, In their eyes, they are monsters who have the misfortune of being called human) You can skip this part.

Venetim. A notorious con artist who can't tell a single truth. +Okay. Just a con artist, that's not so bad! The problem is that, of all the crimes, this is the least serious one, and he's the one with the cleanest moral record in his unit. (we all know what’s coming next, but just in case anyone’s forgotten, I’ll go ahead anyway). Dotta. Ooow, he's so tiny! With that scared look on his face... What could he do to someo- Wait, where did he go? Is that blood??? From your neck??!?! Oh, you're dead :( Seventh place, and we're already starting with someone who has no qualms about killing. The only reason he isn't as good a serial killer as Tsav is because he hates fighting, blood, and hiding the bodies (His favorite victims are those who cannot defend themselves, btw). Jayce. This guy doesn't give a shi about humans, he has a terrible temper, I don't know about this, but i'm sure he'd kill you just for looking at a horse the wrong way (Hmm, I don't know if that time he caused a riot in the first/second capital counts, and I don't remember if anyone died either). Rhyno. Currently just a weirdo, but in the past, he was known as a super-aggressive adventurer who killed people just because he was in a bad mood and made sure everyone knew it (he even earned a nickname that paid tribute to his performance). Norgalle. A terrorist who carried out an attack against the royal family, a completely deranged madman who claims to be the prince of the entire nation. Tsav. Another one who earned a nickname that lives up to his bloody modus operandi. An elite assassin trained by elite assassins who can’t tell the difference between a human and a rock, and who would have no qualms about using children as bait or human shields (his hobby, btw, is dismembering people). Tatsuya. I don't need to explain much. many say he's not human, rather a demon. and they don't just say it for the sake of saying it. Finally. First place, and by a wide margin. The most detested, hated, and despised of them all for committing the worst crime of all: KILLING A GODDESS, THE CENTER OF EVERYONE’S FAITH. He is even feared among the monsters in his own unit because of his unparalleled, horrible temper. XYLO FORBARTZ. I love that Shokai makes the unit made up of the worst criminals of all actually be, well, a unit of the worst criminals of all and not some innocent “cool group” that was unjustly convicted. My point is that Kivia changed her perspective on the Heroes unit in record time because she fell in love with the biggest mf of them all (also in record time). I don't understand how people can say this is good character development (I almost forgot. Kivia met everyone, and to Kivia, they're all total weirdo freaks with no redemption, except, of course, Xylo... so...). Do they ignore everything about the Heroes unit? Because Kivia clearly did. And his second character development>!"I killed my uncle because he was a traitor" (After that, she only mentions his uncle once)!<She doesn't seem sad or anything. It's all Xylo. It moves, speaks, eats, thinks, fights, sleeps, work EXISTS SOLELY AND EXCLUSIVELY because of Xylo

Kivia is definitely a red flag, who treats Xylo as if it were their own. And no matter how hard I try, I just can't see anything morally right about the way she treats other girls or the fact that she completely ignores Frenci's commitment to Xylo. I didn't realize how much I hated NTR until I met Kivia! Maybe I'm going a little overboard with the slander. just a little. But you can't call me a liar. >!The worst part is that even with all these flaws and highly questionable moral actions, the NTR is winning and by a sickening margin!!!! ¡¡¡¡¡¡THAT MAKES ME EVEN MORE ANGRY!!!!!!!!<

It's not fun anymore to bet on a love triangle when they give plot armor to one of the characters. And I'll say it again, especially when it's NTR. But What do you think? The power of love? or a REAL HOMEWRECKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yooooo! Does anyone remember if Xylo killed a human in the light novel? (Except for that bastard he threw an explosive knife at in the face.) I've finished reading all the volumes now, and Xylo knows way too much about the goddesses... very sus...