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I'm really impressed with the quality of this novel. It got me totally by surprise. When you read the title and the sinopsis, what comes to your mind is a generic fantasy/harem/hero x demon king story, but the reality is way different. It's an excepcionally well written drama, where you can feel the characters pain. There are some comical scenes here and there, but the main focus of the story are the struggles the characters faces all the time. They are all really well written, with unique and distincts personalities.The plot developent is awesome, totally different from the norm. It is really an unique take on the "hero x demon king" genre, so much so that you won't have an easy time trying to predict what will happen next, based on your previous experiences with this genre. There author did a really good job here. There are many mysteries from which you can't predict the answer cuz the author always comes up with something out of the expectations margin, and that's awesome, cuz make you want to keep reading it non stop.About the drama, which seems to be the main focus of this story, there were so many scenes that made my heart ache for the characters and also cheer for them. Seeing the main character having to lie to the ones he love, and with that, and hurt them quite a lot, while he himself becomes equally or even more hurt in the process, without being able to ask anyone for help, without having anyone to confide to, having to shoulder all this pain and guilty alone and having his mind being torn apart little by little by it, is something that really touchs the heart of the reader. It makes you ask "how the hell this guy is able to keep going forward?". There was a certain event in this story, which I will call "second bad ending", that completely shredded my heart. For f*cks sake!!! I stayed awake till almost 4AM because I couldn't stop reading this sequence of events, and after that, I had some trouble to sleep... hahaha...But nothing is perfect. If there is something I would like to complain about this novel, is how the author uses the concept of magic in its setting. As a fantasy setting, is quite obvious that magic would be a thing, and I, usually, have nothing against it. The problem starts when the author uses the concept of magic as a "joker card", as a "tool" he/she can use, whenever he/she can't come up with a reasonable solution to a given situation, making magic seem like some godlike power, but only when the author deems so. When the author needs, there is always an ideal magic to tackle the problem, but when it is not convenient for the author intentions, no ideal magic exists. And this is what happens quite often in this story, which really annoys me.
