I Was Reincarnated As The Older Brother Of A Villainess Destined to Die, So I Want To Change The Future By Raising My Younger Sister With My Own Hands ~I Am The Strongest In The World, But My Little Sister Must Be The Cutest In The World~ Chapter 242 Discussion

The harem characters are likeable and the MC is a very hard working guy that continues aiming for greater heights despite being massively overpowered. This is something you can definitely binge read.

A little bit of background of the world:

1. It is a world that is both a bishojo and otome game. The person playing can choose to be either a female saintess that creates a male harem or a male hero that creates a female harem. The MC has cleared both.
2. A persons capability to use magic is determined by a combination of their hair and eye color. The MC has extremely light gray hair, to the point of almost being white, which is accepted in that world as meaning he can't use magic.
3. Life is treated very lightly in this world. Aristocrats pretty much get away with whatever they want to commoners as long as they put in the minimum amount of effort to cover their tracks.
4. In the MC's country there is a religion that treats the aptitudes a person is born with as proof of God's favor. People like the MC as well as beastkin are considered subhuman by this religion. Funny enough, the world has Gods but the MC is acquainted with a Messenger of one of those Gods and the God being worshipped by that religion doesn't actually exist.

The MC uses hints from the game to develop new magic that doesn't rely on attributes. In the game it's treated as potential new research with no definitive possibility of existing but he goes all in on it as he's desperate to save his little sister.

Spoiler

He's desperate to save her because in his past life his own little sister died in front of him.

[collapse]

There are a few things I don't quite like with this series but it's not enough to dock a star:

1. So far the story seems to be going in the direction that one of the male capture targets from the otome game is going to join his harem. A boy that looks so effeminate literally everyone forgets he's a boy. The MC is still treating him as an adorable adopted little brother at the point in the story I'm at.

2. The MC decides to live by some of the ruthless values that are commonplace in that world despite having the power to overturn it:

Spoiler

A commoner, a 16 year old kid, from a region that is ignorant on nobility decides to publicly mock him. According to the values of nobles in that world the MC has to kill him and his family to preserve his dignity. The MC instantly kills the commoner with a headshot but tells everyone else present to keep their mouths shut on the issue to avoid having to kill his family. This development actually got me offguard because it was quite late in the story and it had never been hinted that he would commit to doing something like that.

[collapse]

3. The MC also will refuse to stop some potentially disastrous events from happening because they're events that exist to support the growth of the saintess and hero or because he wants to test a theory that could potentially give a hint to keep his sister from dying.

The saintess and hero both are needed to take on the sealed demon king of that world and at this point in the story the MC would only be able to suppress the demon king with extreme damage to the world. The reason being the demon king is immune to every magic but light and the amount of power he would have to concentrate to break those defenses would cause massive damage to the world.