ArtoriaPendragon_
make her a Professor and try to push her to take more control of the story. She currently feels very passive and just lets thing happen around her. Take this chapter for instance she knew about the slugs but did nothing about them till they were already infecting the school. She even let her girlfriend get brain blasted. Right now she could go and take down Malavor and absolutely no one could stop her his immortality be dammed. It's starting to get fairly repetitive with the monster showing up, her saying let me take care of it, the principal telling her no, then insert plot of episode, followed by her just rapping it up in the end anyway. I think you might be getting caught up in trying to ride the plot. I honestly believe your quite good with your original plot points it feels like this arc ended like 10 chapters ago when mc and hope got together. Because honestly you could have probably ended it there. Them getting into the relationship, a few fluff chapters with them being cute maybe some character development while mc prepares, then the fight with malavor. Because that's pretty much all that matters in this world. These Monster of the week chapters don't really add anything to the story other than the few cute scenes between the mc and hope.