A NEET’s Guide to the Parallel World: Healer, the Strongest Cheat? Chapter 90 Discussion

If I had to resume what you should expect from this novel in one word it would be inconsistency. The premise is pretty simple, bullied MC is summoned to another world with his class and bullies, receives a class considered tr*sh, gets exiled/teleported to an end game dungeon, swears revenge on the kingdom and his bullies for underestimating him and becomes op in 10 chapters. So far the scenario is just your generic power fantasy with an underestimated MC and a pinch of revenge plot. The first “real” arc starts, I call it arc but it is just MC staying in one area and doing stuff as an adventurer. It spans chapter 10 to 50 approximately. Honestly it wasn’t that bad for a chill read.

But when the MC starts travelling the plot goes to sh*t. First I think I counted more or less 5 unfinished plot points in the first location, that are never addressed later on. Second the pace is all over the place. It feels like one of those stories where the author rushes to finish in fear of getting axed, the problem is we aren’t even half way through the story. Third, the author tries to give depth to the MC by having him take odd decisions in moral situations only to give you a half baked and incoherent reason for said decision. One of the most representative moments is around chapter 70:

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the MC and a group of vigilantes/terrorists/revolutionaries choose to eradicate a king and princess for having ordered the genocide of their citizens after an uprising (over losing their connection to a pseudo-TV). The king is killed by the partners and his last words are something like “I’m the king, my kingdom and citizens are my property so I can do whatever I want”. MC has no problem with him dying. But when the princess, who actually ordered the genocide and wanted the citizens to be burnt alive, throws out “I never wanted to be a princess, I’m two-faced because it’s what people want to see so I’m a victim too. You (the MC) should know what it’s like right? I mean you are hiding your face so you are a liar, and evil. I thought you would understand me.”. (Yeah even when writing this I still don’t get how she got to this conclusion). When the MC hears that he goes “mmh who am I to judge. Good and evil are abstract and subjective concepts. I also want to take revenge against my bullies so I can’t judge her. Hmm... alright I’ll just add her to my harem. PROBLEM SOLVED. ». Wtf none of this scene makes any sense and the author tries to make us believe that the MC is actually making a coherent decision but is just misunderstood by his group...

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Honestly I tried to trust the author thinking it was just a down phase for the story and it would improve but after 40 chapters of bullsh*t I give up.

tldr: don’t read it if you are looking for a story that makes sense. That’s it.