It’s the way she handled her and White Fangs’ first meeting in the book, it’s her literal threats to MC during the war (“I may be watching you all the time, so be uncomfortable if you want to take a piss in the bushes” basically) and let’s not forget that MC is the person who
so where is her cunning, persuasiveness and other bs that would make her competent? It’s also her unwavering bias and failure to take notice that things are just a little deeper than she thinks they are.
Mabey she doesn’t have the charisma that a top spy master would have, you think that would be something good to bring up in the story again? Like we use her novice level manipulation skills against her before we are revealed to our long lost friends, even if your not on the revenge path it would be fun to expose Ante and pull the wool over her eyes.
Since it’s confirmed Ante’s suspicion towards MC was inspired by her love for Leon, how angry would everyone be if they hooked up while MC was with Arcadia? Regardless if MC romanced him or not.
Would that be another betrayal since Ante directly led to MC’s death?
I dunno. My MC romanced Ilya and more or less has forgiven Leon given the circumstances outside his control. I’m not sure I see a good king sleeping with his Spymaster but then I’m not sure Leon is a good king. Interesting wrinkle to the whole dynamic though.
At the very least that makes her even more unlikable in my eyes. As a Leonmancer my MC would like to tell her: “I LOVED HIM TOO, YOU IDIOT. WHY WOULD I BETRAY HIM???”
Like uuugh she out of all people should have known
That just further proves that Ante isn’t fit for the spymaster role. She allows her emotions to get the best of her whenever Leon is involved. A good spymaster wouldn’t allow themselves to get caught up in such details