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bloody love arc where MC is the culprit. Clues like the phone were just a red herring from the MC himself. (Or rather the npc with his memories) the two clues that MC explains revealed the answer was that he was 1. More tired than usual, and 2. His heart skipped a beat at one of the relevant npc ml's confession. This is s*upid because it's established constantly in the story that MC NEVER gets any rest within the story because he needs to use energy to get him out of sticky situations, and he's not in a safe space enough to sleep. This is true for all of the previous arcs where MC mentions something about how he needs to sleep when he can to use energy for later. There's no reason for the reader to suspect mc's naps in this arc to be different from the other arcs, especially when there's nothing in the text that mentions his tiredness until the very end. The second one is s*upid also because during the conversation/confession, it is not mentioned at all that his heart skipped a beat or stuttered, or had any palpitations until the end when MC already figured out the culprit. Not good mystery at all.
Residential area arc. This whole arc was just s*upid because of the time reversal. It was a missed opportunity to start with time already reversed and the MC retracing his steps to figure out both what happened and the secret of the scenario alongside the reader. The time reversal was pretty pointless and was there to jumble up all the facts of the situation just like the entry of a boss from a whole different other scenario. This arc is s*upid because the reader wasn't supposed to figure out anything really, because in the first place, because of the intruding plot elements of a different scenario, it all lead to nothing and meant nothing and the information contradicted itself because of this. This one can be forgiven because the jumbled nonsensical clues were given earlier, but the idea that characters and monsters from other scenarios could escape and merge with others was never established, and again, this fact was revealed at the end with the climax.
[collapse]The biggest thing that annoys me are the constant mls throwing themselves out of nowhere. There are player mls, multiple npc mls for each different scenario, and outer world mls (the big lovecraftian bosses at the end and the system (?)). None of them get enough screentime to be relevant because all 100 of them need to share that time to show how much MC is so beautiful, attracting everyone in the entire universe. You'll forget one ML but that's okay, the next one will come in.5 seconds. Otherwise completely irrelevant people will barge in and waste time just so they can have their turn mol*sting or kidnapping or terrorizing the MC.Yes, the constant description of the MC being otherworldly beautiful every other paragraph is annoying, but it's needed to believe that these gods, powerful beings, and lovecraftian beasts all fawn over him. I don't mind it in this regard, because without all these descriptions of the most capable beings slapping their stick over the skin of his armpits, it would kind of be hard to believe that MC could survive these situations, even if it is by the skin of his teeth. His beauty really is a tool, even if he despises it which brings me to my last point.MC is the best part of this novel. If there are lovecraftian people fighting for his attention that just means he is a lovecraftian beauty. He's smart, he can act, he stands up for himself, he is kind to the people he feels deserve it, but he's not perfect. He's deathly scared of ghosts to the point of putting himself in a worse situation to avoid thinking about them, he has a tragic past (?), and he has psychological shadows regarding intimacy and relationships (even platonic) because of his trust issues and what happened in the past. To be fair, he is right to think like this because most of the time people DO have only the worst intentions for him, but the important part about this is that there is room for him to grow. MC is the most complex part of this novel (which isn't saying too much but still).141 chapters, no endgame ML in sight, constant rotation of irrelevant characters, MC still has no power, MC has had no development, nothing relevant has happened, and we are still essentially at the beginning of the story. This isn't a slow burn because there is no fire. There could even be an argument made that there is no plot. There's only all of the nonsensical supernatural elements and the shockingly common assault that happens to the MC that prevents me from labeling this as slice of life.