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I loved reading this. Honeslty, years into the future I will probably look back and remember this.This doesn't have genius writing in terms of story, characters, or anything like that but what I can say is that it is fun. Reading this was fun.MC, Takatsuki Makoto, is reasonable. He acts more or less like a normal human being. He is a bit more clever than most, but that is about it. He has a few quirks but that makes him even better. He starts out weak. Pathetically weak, actually. Some people make fun of him for being weak, but no one goes out of their way to bully him, like in other novels. MC is a bit sour about it, but he isn't out for revenge. His classmates are reasonable, for the exception of one character, none of his other classmates tried to take him into their party, because he would be dead weight. And MC knows this. He learns what he can, taking and using anything he can to win fights with whatever he has because his stats were pathetic.He eventually gains strength, but it is kind of gradual. Not explosive, no sudden world breaking cheats. He works hard for his power. He eventually becomes really strong but almost all of his power is conditional. If you fight him in a place with no nearby water, any random person could kill him. Fight him near the ocean though.... you probably should start running. He is weak most of the time but he can turn into a real badass when he needs to. I think that the fights are awesome. Whether it be early game, where he had to use tricks to kill stuff stronger than him, or later on, when he can actually fight stuff head on. Makoto is probably the very definition of the "conditional power" tag. Almost every major fight where he uses really big and flashy attacks have a parenthesis attached to them, stating that he either had to borrow the power from somewhere else, or he had to sacrifice something to do it.Spoiler
His fight against Geralt, the Sun Hero, and eventually the Immortal demon king gave me chills. We get to see POV of Lightning Hero Geralt, and Sun Hero Alexander as they get absolutely tr*shed by the MC, and I find their descriptions and reactions to the MC to be very satisfying
[collapse] Despite gaining much more power in the latest chapters, he still isn't the strongest in the world yet. He is strong, but even at his strongest there are still characters that could body him.One thing I love is the misunderstandings caused by the skill "Calm Mind". It is exactly what it looks like. It just makes him calm during stressful moments. But it is here we learn that Makoto is an unreliable narrator. The usage of calm mind really does make him calm (no surprise there), and he uses it in battle or in stressful situations all the time, but it is not until we see the POV of other characters, that we get to know how unnatural, sometimes downright scary MC can be when he looks THAT calm It came to the point where people would be creeped out by it. His face not only looks calm, it makes him look like he is talking a leisurely stroll or something. And he does it while doing or fighting the craziest stuff. To the point where the people on the same side as him were more scared of him than the thing they were fighting. But in reality, even with calm mind, he still freaks out, but he just doesn't show it.The waifu's are fun to read about, MC's guy friends aren't just comic relief, but actually have their own lives outside of being friends with the MC.Overall, a very fun read. I came here not expecting much but then ended up reading a web novel that I absolutely loved