I'm hoping that Grace's statement is just a vocal red herring that Eren has managed to persuade her of his p.o.v.

Everytime I read a Grace chapter it just makes me want to see her suffer. I know its unlikely but I'm really hoping to see her in agony. I really love this story but this chapter is a bit too similar to the last one for me. I just want the plot to pick up the pace but that's just me. I can't really handle seeing Eren undergoing cock and ball torture this severe lol.

This is more random thoughts and speculation than a review:

First off, these sort of Great Reset type stories where a NWO-shadow organization uses shrinking to achieve a new epoch are paradoxical by nature (not a bad thing, in fact, it's quite good). The giantess action tends to be top-tier. I'm reading another story of a similar nature, "To Break in a Pet," and some scenes, much like this one, deserve a chef's kiss. On the other hand, because the giantess action tends to come at the expense of characters I've come to care about, whether it be Eren, Tommy, or, in the aforementioned story, Annabelle, you can't help but feel absolutely devastated about. 
This chapter is another good example. Panty entrapment ... evokes something, and that's all I'll say on that. But, Grace has been a nasty, and unfortunately, Eren is in danger, and just when he was about to get his drip.
"Reprogramming" is an intriguing chapter name. The obvious implication is that Eren is going to be reprogrammed into being an obedient slave. However, as there is a twist in your story, Eren isn't necessarily the only one having his spirit tested. Jisoo is en route to meet her mother, which will challenge her very nature, even if it would be beneficial in the end.
One could also wonder, if Grace herself is in danger of being "Reprogrammed" as well. As has been mentioned this chapter, Eren has been through the gauntlet. He might have a fighting chance of turning the tables.

This is a doorstopper, that's for sure. I had to keep turning the page. Your story is very dynamic. At first, I thought it was some fun muscly murder-wife snuff and smut. Then, it turned into a giant conspiracy of another set of people who get drunk off of power. And that's the great irony you've masterfully set-up, the Amita's aren't any different than the human's they've condemned.

I admit that I felt Eren's character was a bit flat at first, he came across as a mere object for Jisoo's desires. It's late in the story that he fully develops as a character, and serves as a catalyst for Jisoo's change. He doesn't appear as murderous as that other Eren.

It's quite a tragic tale, particularly for Thomas, who was the character I was rooting for the most. He was resourceful, compassionate and reasonable. He was David facing off against Goliath, and it was sobering to see our David get crushed. It's necessary for the story, like Eddard Stark in GoT, but you just had to root for the man for his happy ending. Props on you for that, even though his sister was the punching bag for the first chapter.

Their success is predetermined, huh?

Yeah, right!  And the Mongolian research center was totally impenetrable to intruders.

And the countdown to the show-down begins!  :-)

WHOA!!!!!!!!!!

Well this chapter started dark.  I recall another story with similar kitchen scene, only that was told from the perspective of the tiny humans being prepared.  Anyway, it's kind of amusing to me that Grace will happily eat specks alive and whole but becomes squeamish when she sees them butchered like that in the sushi or would have to bite the live ones in half rather than swallow them whole.  Seems like her conditioning missed a spot.

And Jisoo.  Oh my, she really screwed up here didn't she.  But at the same time, and the other reviews mentioned this, she was brainwashed and Eren is causing it to come undone.  Also, I foresee a fight between Grace and Jisoo.  Grace firmly believes in the cause and loves Jisoo but Jisoo's having second thoughts thanks to Eren.  On another note, it looks like the Buddha has a surprise for everyone.

This story has become a full length novel and I love every bit of it.

Oh, wow. What chapter. It is just as I imagined. Those feelings of Eren finally erupted when he found out about Maddie. Jisoo sentenced Maddie to a life of being Riuwen's pet and that was finally the straw that broke the camel's back. Jisoo had to get drunk in order to hurt Eren. It's amazing, after all that those two felt together for Jisoo it was more important her "Heavenly Duties" than the person she once loved. It's hard for me to believe right now that Jisoo has feelings for Eren. As always said that woman is a very contradictory character.

But, also as always the suspense. That "golden flash" that launched the Buddha statue on Jisoo that knocked her down. Oh wow that was unexpected. In the previous chapter, Jisoo's sister or mother was seen in front of a Buddha statue, meditating. Umm what a mystery hahaha just as I expected from the end of this chapter. Well, nothing. To wait for the next one.

Kardo, side note, I saw on the Discord channel that you had some health problems with Covid-19. I just hope you get better soon friend and I don't know if it will help you much but they say that Omicron (the variant of coronavirus that is circulating now) is more virulent but less aggressive than Delta. I also had coronavirus although it only lasted a week in which I was asymptomatic and treated with Interferon. Good health and thanks again for not discontinuing this work. I know you're going to great lengths to bring this to us.

Ok, so now that a lot more of "the plan" has been laid out I have a few things to say. This story has gone off the rails into the realm of sheer, absurd stupidity. Jisoo and all of her batshit crazy family are a bunch of hypocrites (as has been reiterated upon many times over). They claim they want a perfect world, and will secure their rule by not trying to fix wrongs in the world but to greatly exacerbate them in the hopes that all those that suffer from their actions don't hate them for it. To go from creating specks with the sole reason being making the rest of humanity despise and brutalize them, only to plan to microspeck the rest and have them be at the mercy of normal speck is incredibly stupid in so many ways. For example, the current specks currently survive on the meager handouts of normal people and society. If all of that society and people are turned to microspecks then they all starve. Unless the Amrita corp is somehow able to reach and feed, clothe and otherwise support everyone on the planet the death toll will be in the billions. In which case it might be more humane to just release a bioweapon to kill them instead of messing around with shrinking so they all have to suffer in one way or another. I guess at this point I'm just confused at all the problems they're creating, instead of solving for their "perfect" world, which by all evidence is in reality more of a tyrannical police state built on hatred of each other to avoid hatred of the cause of the architects of it all. I'm a little curious if the Amrita corp has their employees sign in with a sieg-heil before they goose step their way to the office with plans to destroy the human race. I hate to be so critical of a once great storyline but while there may be some mildly interesting drama left to unfold the reasoning and basis for a lot of it grows weaker with every chapter.

The only good thing about this chapter is how Eren seems to have grown a spine and a shred of a conscience. Which while refreshing is starkly in opposition to his behavior and reactions to all of this happening before. He defends Alice and her brother now, but in the moment and after watching their execution all he could muster was a whole bunch of "meh, they were bad I guess." I find his indignation to be justified, however I also find it to be wholly out of character.

Author's Response:

"This story has gone off the rails into the realm of sheer, absurd stupidity." 

So I actually really like more critical reviews but I think that's just very mean and not exactly constructive. On to your review itself I do disagree with your analysis for a couple of reasons, but I definitely like discussing about it in a mutually respectful way. I don't think you really understand that the Amrita Corporation or why a lot of characters act how they do. The Amrita Corporation isn't actually trying to make the world a better place. It wants world domination. However they cannot outright come out and say that to all their members and employees, since obviously some people would disagree. Therefore they say that humans are evil, or that it is all for the greater good, or that their family members are gods and have a divine right to rule. 

Some characters like Jisoo, Ruiwen, and Grace fall into the category of believing that they are gods are have the right to do whatever they want to humanity since they think they know better than them. And for Jisoo, it's also because she fundamentally hates ordinary people. Jisoo being a hypocrite isn't really a criticism, since that is a part of who she is as a character. She is supposed to be a hypocrite at this point in her development.

Other characters like Xiangling, Lianfei and Lukas on the other hand don't see the Amrita Corporation as doing it all for the greater good, but support it because they as individuals will greatly benefit from it. Lianfei who married into the family will be given lots of power, as would Xiangling who worked for the company then had a relationship with Grace, and Lukas has the opportunity to be one of the humans not shrunken by Operation Deliverance and also gain a lot of power money and influence. This is one reason why lots of Amrita Corporation employees do what they do, because they know if they are victorious they and their families would have a lot to benefit, which in addition to a very careful vetting process explains why they are loyal. Then finally you have Satsuki. She is a character who makes it very clear that she understands what the Amrita Corporation is doing if they claim to be saviors is hypocritical. The entire point of her conversation with Eren in a previous chapter was to make it very clear that the true purpose of the Amrita Corporation is world domination, but she goes through with it anyways without caring about the supposed justifications because she thinks they are a waste of time, since she just wants to be a god-queen and have power. 

As for your point about Eren, try to put yourself in his shoes. You are in love with a woman, but now have seen her darker side. Sure she killed some people, but those were two people who he barely knew and one of them tried to kill him and the other defended his would be killer. So he can look past that for the most part. However Maddie is someone who he considers a friend, is his boss, and he has seen her change of heart. Obviously when Maddie is in trouble, it will be much more impactful, and it happens right after Satsuki reveals everything to him so he is especially sensitive to that right there and then. There has been no precedent for him before like this, so I disagree with your assertion that it is 'out of character' for him to have a reaction like that. 

Like I said I welcome all criticism but I also really don't appreciate the unnecessary statement at the start, and don't really agree with your points although I do believe everybody is entitled to their views on something. However if you think the story has gone off the rails, trust me it only gets worse from here.