It's really not dumb if you're someone who values his/her freedom. If Zero took Hiro's Golden Finger, technically Zero would also be the one who would bear the protagonist's responsibility in saving Edolas.

Author foreshadowing Topper's outcome

Because he came to an English Medieval Dynasty where there is this thing called Chivalry and his father is speculated to be a Noble who is a honorable knight which means in his family Chivalry is part of his upbringing that's why hes a big SIMP

Thank God he joined. This proves that the author knows how to make a character. Remember that Emery is timid and thinks of himself as weak so, him suddenly refusing Cole just so he could search by himself and have a chance at joining the alchemy Institute would break his character of being timid. So far the 2ndary characters are just stringing him along and this just proves his passive personality. Thus, the author suddenly making Emery refuse the offer would make him a Braindead Xianxia MC where one day he's peaceful, teaching kids no killing then next day exterminates a whole clan of people regardless of their moral alignments

Still waiting for the obligatory Jade-like skin introduction.

imagining Rosen as that close eyed character archetype who likes to tease his Lord or Master.

Now she's Chloe again? What is it really? Chole or Chloe?

it's a grammatical error. What should've been written was " 10 of us joined the Guardian Knights except Chole. He didn't need to add the "Myself included" because he included Will by saying the "us" in the sentence. I guess Author needs that additional word count.

Wishing that someone would slap him, that his reality now is different. He still thinks that he lives in a peaceful earth where civilizations are strictly watched and tightly guarded.

did he forget he's a 28 yr old guy in his past life?

No offense but now I'm hearing Lucas' monologue with curry english accent

nah. next life is a clean slate and all's fair when it comes to love. What If in the past life you're both human and in the next one of you is a female pig and the other is female goat and one of you had another partner, you can't say that the other one is cheating.

in normal cultivation novel's it is always explained that the gap between Major stages in cultivation are impossible to cross especially to normal cultivators.

he wasn't in the natural sense. he's acting, specifically method acting and that really puts a strain on your health the deeper you are in to the role youre playing

Young Rising Sons - Carry On