Ahhhhh, this was so good? The art's fucking amazing (love the chonky teeth), the characters make such a good impression in a few dozen pages (they designated Monet a villainess because she had too much drip and was too gay for the class system to contain) and the author really gets how to write a good relationship dynamic, the essence of which is that all parties get to be equally cool and cute and pull their weight. The Yuri Villainess subgenre in general is one that's really grown on me, because while I'm not really a fan of the otome-game, generic medieval rich-bland-white-people European setting most of them have (and also because the first work in the subgenre I read was IFTV, which I found to be extremely mid), every consecutive Yuri Villainess story I've read has somehow managed to be better than the last. It's actually insane how they consistently keep exceeding my expectations even as they heighten, with this one easily making its way to the top so far. Hope to see more from the artist as well, because damn, they've got style.
