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It's okay.The main story here is that the hero wants to survive, and in order to survive he needs to unlock his powers and avoid the death the princess wants to impose on him. The way to do that is to "tame" the princess, which unlocks his powers (as they are sealed in accordance to how much she "recognizes" him).The story starts off really good, particularly for an R-18 novel with a bit of kink and dominance of the princess and originally I was excited to read more since I assumed that the story would be something like, he makes the princess fall further and further into depravity while unlocking his power to escape or survive. But then it just kind of goes off the rails and meanders for a large section where there is almost no real progress with the princess.I feel like a part of the problem is the characterization of the main character. He's not enough of a scumbag or even enough of a dominate in the story, until the very end chapters where he essentially acquires a s*ave, who is of course really evil, so all the evil sh*t he is going to do to her is totally justified. Ahem. More or less - the author here is afraid to commit to his character. He needs to give him some sort of moral justification for doing pe*verted things and raping these women, but does it in the most transparent and silly way. "Oh, they're WORSE, so it's punishment." All it does is make the MC come off like a typical wishy-washy Japanese isekai protaganist.There are parts of this novel I really enjoyed, but also parts that are redundant, boring and frankly disappointing. The author had a great premise and kind of did nothing with it and it appears it's because he's just afraid of committing to his story. That's never a good sign.