The Darkness Was Comfortable for Me Chapter 142 Discussion

It's funny how people who hate this novel only point at the same thing:

- wimp/s*upid mc

They must be reading a lot of wuxia/xianxia, enough to be thinking that MC should all be ruthless, brave, and true to their desire, and should not succumb to their fear and trauma.

Hikaru is only 15, and despite the people around him aren't normal, he himself is just a normal kid trying to live a normal life. Not to mention the reason he's still normal despite being surrounded by abnormal situation is because the people around him put on an act as normal people when in front of him, except his parents.

Even if you're full prepared for anything that the future hold, there would always be something that are unexpected for you, and imagine hikaru, who don't even know he'll be replacing his childhood friend as Chosen to be isekai'd. Some people might think that he's lucky, but if you're asked to be in his shoes, you definitely won't be able to survive.

Also, Hikaru has a weak mentality? The one who said this should get their mental checked first.

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He got trauma, he saw the people dear to him got bloody mu*dered, he was transferred against his will, he was put into the most dangerous place without being given any time to ready unlike a normal Chosen who are able to prepare for half a year, he was framed by the whole world as mu*derer, people are sending assassin to him left and right, and he knows people even went and burnt his home, he even got hate email every single seconds....

And despite all that, all he needs just a few days of alone, quiet time..

People normally take at least around a year to get back on their feets after totally fallen, but he only took few couple sleep to be somewhat functioning as human again.

Go watch Youtube, search up the interview video of people who got back to their feet after losing everything and had to sleep on the street, and you would know how hard it is to get back up after fallen so low.

Hikaru is totally like that. He fell so hard, he almost died, he was forced to isekai and forced to leave everything he hold dear in his previous life, his childhood friend and her family died a gruesome death, people blamed him and tries to harm his family because they thought he was the mu*derer of his own childhood friend. They burned his family home, his family had to be a runaway. And he didn't know if the Chosen that comes into contact with him is ally or assassin's coming to kill him.

If he's a wimp, then everyone in the whole world are wimp too, I guess.

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About how cliche the stories goes..

I don't consider this novel have a lot of cliches at all.. most of what happened are just a result of action taken in the stories.

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For example, about having genius twin as little sisters. Let face a fact, everyone born in this world are genius at something, it just that what they genius at are can different from each other. For his little sister, hikaru taught them what he think they're good at, and it appears that they're genius at those area. For example, Karen is good with computers but aren't so good at social and have low physical strength. Celica is good at socializing but aren't so good at computers. Both of them are like this because hikaru realized they're good at what they're good at, and so he taught then the basic of those two things.

Also, the reason there seems to be cliched event, such as how he suddenly got crystal/point when he need them the most, it's all because the god in the story intervened to keep whatever happening interesting to him. When you think it that way, you can see that everything that happened is all the result of people and god taking action.

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The story pacing is just nice to me, 142 chapter and its only been a month in the novel. Some might consider it as slow pace, but if you've read Tsuki ga Michibiku, you would know that it's actually quite fast paced, it's just that its written so detailed that with everything that happened (a lot happened, I tell you), its actually just a month after the transfer.

Lastly, thanks Reigokai-sama for all the efforts given to keep the translation great and fast!