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Is the novel worth reading?Yes! It’s rare for novels to show realistic tragedy and suffering, many just gloss over it or someone overpowered conveniently comes in just in time to save the day. In this novel the “villains” don’t just wait for the MC to get super strong or make s*upid mistakes that are too unrealistic, the decisions they make match their overall shown personalities.I feel that the author tries to keep the rawness and dangerous atmosphere of this world. The battle scenes are somewhat interesting, and how the stories develops is somewhat surprising.What I don’t like about the novel (and this is a common occurrence in many Japanese novels) is that the author tries to portray a somewhat strategist feel to MC, but later on portrays him to be extremely dense. I feel that if someone is capable of making critical decisions on the battlefield, then that character should be able to have a semblance of common sense.I don’t know if the author writes these scenes for the comedic content in between the violence or if he’s just bad in portraying romance, but it reaches a level where I feel that all of the main heroines are starting to act the same. Many of the heroines act a certain a certain type of way when introduced (they have calm, cute, or strong personalities) but when they interact long enough with the MC they all turn manipulative and yandere like (to be clear I appreciate a good yandere), but they basically control almost all of the social circle of the MC and keep making decisions for him behind his back. They surely want to protect him but I don’t think they trust him enough to show him their true selves (While you keep reading you’ll notice that each of the heroines has a kind of “hidden quirk”, to say the least, that they keep hidden from the mc), they only show the parts they want him to see. Honestly some of these romantic scenes make the MC seem beta as hell, It feels like the author forces him to be dense so he can prolong the tension.It reaches a point where the only way for the MC to see that his partners are romantically interested in him is if they straight up say it CLEARLY to his face, because I’m sure that if they just say that they like him and are interested in him he’ll just misunderstand. It’s laughable that when they invite him on dates with very romantic settings he thinks that they just want to be close friends with him.I really hope this gets better and he stops being so beta.All of this is just my opinion and everyone should at least read a few chapter before making a decision, ignoring the cliched romance it’s not that bad.