This story is actually a pretty competent marriage of a shonen story and the villainess genre.
The very rare combination makes the story fairly unique, the story elements refreshing, the characters cool-looking. The story is also well-paced, with a good sense of escalation between one arc and another.
And one thing I deeply appreciate is that they take good care in developing side characters. Compared to many, many RoFan stories, the characters here are unique and less of a caricature.
However, as either a shonen story or a villainess story, this is kind of mediocre. Both elements are cannibalizing each other.
Scarlet's various Love Interests and their vivid courtship methods would work well in a shonen story because most of the panels are rightly spent to precious, precious actions, but from the villainess genre's lens they are just annoying leeches who constantly breaches Scarlet's boundaries instead of *-actually- *communicating and getting to know each other.
Put it this way, I don't want Scarlet to end up with ANY of the love interests. Not even as a reverse harem deal.
And yes, Scarlet's moments of vulnerabilities so far are mostly plot obligations to advance the romance... A villainess plot staple, for sure, but also an annoying shonen trope. Scarlet herself is a refreshing, unique variant of a typical shoujo villainess heroine, but in a shonen story she is an outdated trope, a Haruno Sakura, a female badass who is OP 90% of the time...until the time where she has to be nerfed so that her (perfect, borderline psychopathic) male love interest can rescue her.
Again, it's still a really good alchemy. But I kept finding myself annoyed when reading it.