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The author clearly wants her to be this lovely perfect girl but doesn't want her to come out as a mary sue so the MC ends up getting downplayed without actually committing to it and reiterating how pitiful her life was except... It's not. This isn't a poor to riches story but a rich to richer story. She has a large backing from a lot of S class hunters who are overprotective of her and large amounts of money from her dead S-rank father. She's a stunning drop dead gorgeous beauty too. And her humble and down to earth personality is amazing. She's absolutely flawless, inside or outside, and even her social network is among the best in the country. S-rank items gets tossed down her feet for free, super powerful people keep tabs on her status and safety, etc etc.
Yes it's tragic that her dad died in the dungeon but almost every character in the novel suffered from losing one or two people to the dungeon due to the setting of the novel. I'm not saying her misery isn't important but simply that the author likes to repeatedly juice this one flaw in MC's life, like they're trying to squeeze sympathy from the reader but it just doesn't work when repeated every chapter and every other hotel visitor comes in with an even MORE tragic story. I already felt bad for her the first few chapters ok author. I want to feel for her more but the author themselves make it so hard.
I don't want to compare the characters misery to each other but the MC literally does it herself. FodderA would tell her own sad story then MC would go 'oh no that's terrible... this reminds me how my dad died. it's the 20th time I remember this today.' Repeat this 1000x.
Yeah she suffered but she's pretty much an elite within the country so...? I couldn't really feel bad as every convenience is within access to her, even before her awakening. She even used the fact her dad died inside the dungeon to encourage her S-rank Godfather figure to work on something, without outright asking him because she's a good girl and she would never be spoiled enough to ask for favours. Even the ML had it worse than her; they're both orphans but he grew up with a guardian who ab*sed him since childhood. He became an S-class hunter but is a constant subject to social assassination from her old foster family. Never had a social life nor friends because of it too. He feels unwanted outside of his fighting abilities. He is pathetic at everything else outside dungeon diving. Bro needs a lot of therapy.
[collapse]If I have to point out MC's most glaring character flaw is that she's on the slow and dumb side but it doesn't seem to be intentional considering that the other characters are even worse than her. I wish the author stopped beating the dead horse which was her dad after 20 chapters. It would have made her more likeable over all. But it never stops. Don't get me wrong, she's not annoying or hateful just that only her ONE trauma stands out, not her character over all.Worldbuilding is the typical dungeon and awakeners type similar to the likes of solo-leveling. Every awakened are ranked. S being the highest. Awakeners get skills.Supporting characters are nothing stellar. Translation quality is on the poor side but slightly better than MTL.All in all an OK novel if you have nothing else to read or waiting for that SSS grade cafe update.