Be as pissed off as you want.
If you mistake "pointing out potential loopholes in the plot" with "being pissed off", you are likely never gonna be able to offer good counterpoints like
Starting the narrative off in media res is a time-honored literary tradition.
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Good point. You are right on that. Yet, it's just a matter of preference, I do enjoy my exposition for stuff based upon relationships (including smut, to quote our yuri n wine). In media res is, IMHO, better used to set up a later explanation than to avoid having to do it, and based upon this chapter 1, it seems more a case of the latter than of the former.
I guess we'll have to see what Zanka does in later chapters.
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