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There wasn't anything special or mind-blowing, Okay enough to read when you have nothing to do.Though I have a bit of problems with this Guts guy...I mean the MC character, he seems pretty fussy and inconsistence a lot of times, and from mild annoyance it piled up along the way until I have doubt if author actually have plans for his character development. Well, I at least wont complain how slow and dense he is because I utterly despise those trope and would make this very biased comment.He doubts and lied too easily to his sole companion, who so far have been nothing but help to him and have been saving each others' neck countless times and for seemingly no reason at all, like "because she doesn't need to know" or "she’ll treat me like a guinea pig if she knew" and such nonsense assumption, while some lies could pass as an inconsequential, some could actually be fatal. Feels like he was made as someone who have massive trust issue like typical MC from 'tragedy' genre where he got betrayed by Griffith the former leader of his mercenary band who he trust so much or something, but I have so far not find a reason why he would, so I can't scratch off the feeling that his character was build as Compulsive liar of sort.And his "Rule", tsk, former mercenary, and now adventurer being so inflexible that he have some useless iron clad rule like he is a priest or knight or something, Spoiler
"There’s no way I could sleep while my client is still awake." he said, but his client is a freaking vampire who haven't sleep ever since she was born. Even so, he put up not to sleep for 3 day & night while having endless battles against undead. I don't know what to say. And while he put up with the sleep, he easily ask his client to help him in battle, which is also one of his rules (Not in dire circumstances mind you) and with no shame whatsoever with just 'Although Loren did feel opposed to making his client work, but he had a good reason to ignore it'. What? Wasn't your rules important? Did you just throw it away? Would you sleep then? No? That totally make sense.
[collapse]And the story and events that unfold is pretty cliché with repetitive formula, it's fine though, nothing bad about being cliché but the repetitive part might get me stop reading soon.