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As many other reviewers have pointed out, this novel is basically "Misunderstandings - The story". I read quite a lot of this in one session and at first some of the situations were actually kind of interesting to me. Sure, the world-building is quite lacking but I was willing to give this thing a shot regardless, hoping for some cool developments down the road and looking forward to the misunderstandings being resolved...However, after reading a decent amount of chapters, I have one big problem with this novel: The lack of satisfaction. This is because of three reasons: Firstly, the protagonist's personality totally contradicts what people think of him and pretty much everything he does is interpreted incorrectly by outsiders (somewhat reminiscent of Overlord but done way worse and with too much focus on it). This leads to him achieving great results whenever he does something but the fact that he himself never realizes the truth is just frustrating. And this frustration totally overshadows any sort of comedy of the situation for me.The second reason is that the side characters and especially the villains just don't carry any weight and lack development. So even if he defeats someone, it's just not satisfying to me because the build-up was insufficient. And if you combine this with him beating the villain essentially through sheer luck or without even realizing it then it's even worse.Reason 3: It doesn't seem like the misunderstandings ever get cleared up. It's just sort of establisbed as a given at some point so beware: Should you decide to read this you will be trapped in an endless vortex of characters doing the wrong things so badly that they somehow succeed instead. And at the same time they also somehow look like they were actually doing everything correctly from the start... If THAT sounds funny to you and you think you could enjoy it then you might like this novel! For me however, this was just kinda painful.The story also didn't feel like it was going anywhere. The main character might get some new things or make connections with new people but none of that takes the story in a new direction. Many characters are introduced but then seemingly never play an important role.The icing on the cake for me were the events of Volume 3: Spoiler
Where he decides to marry another noble to take over her status and have fun "breaking" her but in the end she just genuinely falls for him and everyone is somehow happy. It's just so ridiculous that I can't even laugh about it.
Now I'm afraid that if I continue reading this it will either have no romantic progress betweem them at all or it will have some but it won't be enjoyable anyway since the two of them would just misunderstand each other, making it all meaningless...
[collapse]Anyway, rant over. Maybe this story is just totally incompatible with my sense of humor... Perhaps you can get enjoyment out of it though. But seriously don't read it if you're looking for a satisfying story.