Crap, the Villain Is Forced to Play the Role of the Heroine! Chapter 24 Discussion

Well the name certainly sounds like BL and the summary only says that that is not the case without actually saying anything about what the story actually is. Certainly not an attractive novel but I picked it up because the cover image is actually the cover of a smutty Japanese LN about a healing mage who turned back time and brainwashed an evil princess. I don't remember the name of it right now. Turns out this has no relation to that novel so I dunno why it has the picture.

Anyway, here's a summary of the story: The MC finds himself inhabiting the body of the villain from his sister's garbage fantasy story. His villain system rewards him for acting in line with his role as villain and punishes him if he does something out of character. Unfortunately, each of the heroines find the villainous MC more interesting than the protagonist that they are supposed to fall for. With the demon king, saintess, sword master, and hero being swayed from the route they are supposed to take, what will happen to the world?

I assume that the title is foreshadowing the MC needing to eventually help the hero because the heroines aren't helping the hero. This is just my assumption though because at this point in the story the MC is still trying to be the villain and hasn't realized that things have gone wrong.

As for my review: I like it so far and think that it is a decent teenage isekai harem story but with a villain system thrown in. Honestly it's the same tropes you've seen before but with the protagonist being dense because he actually has a good reason to expect the heroines not to love him for once. These villain system stories are popping up more and more, so I can't really say where the average level is right now. But they are still fresh to me, so I feel that this is above average for the "isekai harem" genre. Not by much though. The author pulls the whole "Oh no, this is a crappy fantasy story!" trope to handwave-away the weak world-building. It is a lazy cop-out that I have seen a lot lately but at least the character interactions are interesting.