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People are complaining usually because they are expecting standard revenge novel when MC looses all morality and common sense just because something terrible happened to him.This is not a story with super simplistic characters whose personality comes down to EVIL. Some antagonists are them because they follow their own benefit, and some are idealistic people who due to misinformation, or trusting selfish people. The two direct antagonists are literally heroes of their own story, and if it was written from their perspective, we wouldn't bat an eye about what happened, and we would root for them to defeat the MC. That creates a much more interesting conflict than just "there is a bad person that hurt me so I'll hurt them", although there is a lot of that too.The point of initial sequence is not to establish crime that must be paid for, but to establish wounds on MC's psyche that change him, and he struggles with. Story instead of just quenching thirst for revenge examines it, its consequences, and moral implications.
