That's a nice surprise.

From the art to the characters, I like a lot about this story.

The art is nice and detailed. The wide variety of different monster designs is amazing, With a lot of monsters looking cool and at times intimidating. Sometimes the facial features seem to look weird but it doesn't take away from the art.

Alice is adorable and she is awesome. At times i wish we got her acting more childish cause most of the time she acts like a 17 year old girl. I think it would have been interesting if Alice was twins instead. Have one be Alice as she is and have a Alice that's more childish and ditsy.

The MC isn't really annoying or all that obnoxious.

I like how the hero party seems to be the butt of the jokes and not just have the Hero party be full of nothing but annoying full of them self characters.

I don't know if i like the idea of the MC marrying Alice when she is older or marrying the Princess. Me personally i always want Yuri anywhere possible so i ship the Princess and Alice together. They're also nice characters together.

Overall an awesome story that i originally thought was gonna be generic.