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Excerpt taken from my full review elsewhere.Here’s a more accurate, quick synopsis. MC, a medical student from earth gets reborn in a fantasy world. From the virtue of his knowledge and healing abilities, he becomes the world’s best doctor. In a world where injuries are only healed by the priests and doctors don’t exist. Since his ability is so good, he gets kidnapped by the tyrant empress who wants him to heal her. But even when he is done she doesn’t let him leave.I’ve read this novel till chapter 41, the translation is decent, but the names are actively hard to remember, it doesn’t help that the author names most of them with S, the MC’s name starts with S, the childhood friend’s name starts with S, the maid, the academy junior, even the capital city’s name starts with S, use something else author ffs.Okay so, first things first, the trait you will notice immediately upon reading the first few chapters of the novel, the MC has this busybody doormat syndrome. Because he is supposed to be ‘kind’ according to the author, like a living saint, he will sacrifice himself to save others. He consistently gets kidnapped and threatened and forced into treating people except that he would have done it anyways. Also he is strong enough to resist if he really wanted to. Thing is, he doesn’t want to resist in the first place.He is also very hypocritical towards the church. On the surface he says he hates the church because the church has objectively bad people in it. One of the plotlines is that the church hands him a vial of poison and say that he must poison the empress or else the people near him will be in danger, and immediately his maid gets kidnapped and assaulted, bruises everywhere etc. So the MC goes and chases down the kidnapper and instantly everyone including the author forgets about this vial of poison.The MC doesn’t truly want the world to be a better place, if the injustice is happening out of his sight then he’s not bothered at all. He will sacrifice the many for the few in front of him so that they can continue making the world worse.Anyways now is the point where I say some good points about the novel. But the flaw is simply so glaring that this is a pain to read. I can’t in good faith give this novel any higher a rating than 5 out of 10. There is a story with an overarching plot of the MC’s approaching death, there is an alright fantasy world tho nothing about the magic or how it works is explained at all yet, there are characters that are consistent and express their thoughts and ideals clearly, only that these ideals are basically tr*sh and bigoted.
