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Novel extremely disappointingly not recommended to read.Better Summary: MC is a mysterious psychopath-like Mary Sue OP girl with a system that upgrades her based on death value. She wakes up in a Horror themed world and proceeds to bully a bunch of horrors. There’s also a loser male lead guy who is kind, has premonition powers, and is oddly attentive to the MC and can detect her even through illusions and will always heal and comfort the Mc! He is also the perfect match to her lol. So yeah, it’s mostly a two person show or mainly the ML being shocked at how crazy MC stirs things up!Downsides of the novel:1) Overarching plot weakness: The pacing is rather bad, with author dropping exposition dumps for world building about the horrors and hinting that MC has a mysterious past that has been targeted. She’s also got the powers or order and chaos and may or may not be an ancient deity. There’s lots of action of events taking place, but in the overall scheme of the Mc’s story and of the plot she’s “supposed” to be in, the heroine of the world MC crossed into hasn’t even met the ML yet.2) Mc’s character is... well all over the place. She was titled chaotic for a reason, but author also added order. MC is perfectly fine with dealing with blood and monsters but has little common sense - something the author sets up earlier but then doesn’t end up doing many inventive things with. And somehow after hacking away at human people, monsters that look like humanoids, and evil monstrous mu*derous humans - she still has trouble attempting to kill (or even think of killing) the Psychopath mastermind behind killing tons of helpless students? It all seems rather ridiculous with what the author built up earlier. These inconsistencies run through the story considerably, much with how the expert supernatural incident group people are actually happy go lucky imbeciles or decidedly incompetent. (Yes, I know that’s how all these stories go, but having supposedly seasoned individuals always lose their brains and not to horror pollution is a problem. At least the author often mentions illusions or the like for that.) 3) Horror Versus Comedy theming - Novel is more comedy than horror but at some point the two genres really cut into each other violent killer style. One quick example: It’s hard to appreciate the deadly mu*derous pen cultist deity when the MC is laughably tricking it into writing over all the walls and squiring ink. At the same time, it’s not quite as funny when there’s lots of implied blood and sacrifice to the pen cultist deity and hints of previous evil behavior. Timing can also be off for a lot of parts. For example - emphasizing how pitiful the malevolent house fish monster is while simultaneously showing it consume phantom people weakens both portions. There’s also an added bit of frustration over the MC not being able to finish off an enemy for comedic effect when the situation clearly necessitates quick action. (Though at least few humans were harmed in the current story due to Mc’s actions due to her alignment).Mostly though, the novel really tends to drag on in each horror scenario and the time spent after is filled with middling exposition. The world feels rather empty, with the MC sort of latching onto the ML and system. There’s not much look into Mc’s background, but lots of exposition hinting at it. The other main issue is the real lack of reasoning itself for the MC to upgrade. Sure, MC was told once way back that the only way to continue is to gain death value but her method has only worked due to the insane plot armor coverage. There’s also a certain lack of a imagination in the story when it comes to all the mystical abilities and severe over reliance on the most ridiculous of items (paper that explains horror rules or mystic props like the overly consumed drugs). The action is also extremely weak basically boiling down to using plot item A (A Mystic Sealing Box!) or by mysterious ability B (MC ice powers? Precognition by some other person despite there being only 2 human precogs left [One of whom is the ML]. The final nail in the coffin though has to be the author’s strange obsession with temporary flashbacks (thankfully with time stamps though time and space are warped so practically anything could have been pasted in). If you read the novel you’ll see it being used here and there for dramatic effect.-900Octillion/10 Interesting premise, lackluster execution.