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An interesting isekai story that puts a spin on various tropes.The first is that it's told as a "second round" of a regular isekai MC that completed various adventures already, and parts of that story are filled in as part of the backstory setting for this novel. However, this isn't a case of either "finished isekai MC has to save the world again" or "finished isekai refuses to save the world again and lives a slow life instead", but the more active protagonist is actually a girl from the second trope, which is "being cast out after having weak stats from a class summoning".There are a few similar characters to her in other novels, but I haven't come across any that are quite like her. Simply put, she does her best at everything, including combat, to the point of having the resolve to kill or be killed. Under the tutelage of the second round MC, she gets a growth cheat and goes through some lighthearted and partially brutal adventures. The story mainly focuses on the slice-of-life however, and only the important battles are actually depicted directly.And rather than a world in crisis, the main driving force of the story is her desire for growth and to become stronger.In terms of pace, you could consider it rather slow, since about one and a half months have passed in these ~280 chapters, but actually quite a lot happened in that time. It's just that her training is very efficient, and they're constantly progressing to ever stronger opponents to fight. The world's strongest are still in a relatively distant future though.Overall it's quite well-written, and scratches the itch for protagonists without common sense without actually leading to a black-hole harem MC. Well, the male MC is somewhat surrounded by girls, but he's pretty clear in not making it a harem and he's not unaware of their feelings either.There isn't as much of it translated yet, but I can also recommend the manga, which tells the story more from the girl's perspective.
