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It's not bad but I don't think it's good enough to be read. Since I only tried this because of the translator's other work, I might as well use I'm an Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! As a reference. I'm aware they're of different genres but I'm mainly going to talk about the writing style. For one, it is too slow paced for my taste. Like seriously, I don't care about how using magic makes tea taste better or whatever. It takes every single thing so seriously, things that I couldn't really care about. On the other hand, Evil Lord gets many things done in a single chapter. Every paragraph has something significant going on and it really feels like the story is going somewhere. It's not a story where it explains how the MC does one thing for 10 paragraphs and the rest of the chapter is everybody else reacting to it. It's not a very interesting story when every other character only serves to praise how talented and competent the MC is despite his age or whatever. I don't particularly hate it when stories do that, but I definitely don't like it when that's the only thing they do. The second is about the Female Lead. Something about her just doesn't feel right. It's like the joke harem on Evil Lord except it's written unironcally. She's obviously not that crazy of a ret*rd superfan yet, but the vibes that she's getting there is not a very good feeling. She's the master of the MC but she acts like she's his pet cat or something. Defeats the whole purpose of the master-servant relationship. I don't know if this is what other people wanted when reading a novel about a butler, but this isn't what I wanted. The tendency of Japanese writers to make it as smooth of a journey as possible for the MC just ruins the story a lot of the times. Like the female lead obviously likes her butler but I guess it's okay since her father isn't saying anything about it. Saving child s*aves? No problem, just go to the syndicate boss, pretty sure he'll welcome you there. Might as well impress him with your age while you're at it BECAUSE WHY NOT. This tendency is also shown on Evil Lord. In fact, it's way more than this. Except the fact is that it's part of the joke of the entire series itself that the MC somehow gets his path smoothened out unintentionally by other forces. Seriously, one more thing that's taken as a joke somewhere else written unironcally here. I had more comparisons to Evil Lord than I thought I would but that's basically the gist of it. This is not just a complain about this novel but the entirety of Japanese webnovels in general. I don't like how they write them and although Evil Lord was somehow an exception to this, I was proven right again by this novel. It's not a horrible novel but when you've read too much for your own good, this is not the type of story you'd enjoy.