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So, this one is a quite peculiar speciman.Unlike others, I won't cling to the MC and his cracked psyche. Instead, let's talk about the author. This man doesn't respect you as a reader, much less he cares about any consistency of his book. He will never reveal you anything interesting about the world, only 2 cities have names, nothing consistent about georaphy, nothing about Faran's church up until the 9-th volume! They were the ones to put Keyaru's village to dust, mind you. Environment writing is at zero, many characters don't even have descriptions, like Carol's "friends" and Eve's council of 10. Many things, like Faran church's banishment, are explained post-facto. Everything Keyaru is given is being utterly forgotten, like Setsuna's father amulet, Lapis's father amulet, orichalcum ore from golems, magic of light and darkness from Eve - those things aren't even used. Hell, even his big decision to remain himself (a 14-year old boy body) in the end of the 8-th volume is forgotten in the 9-th! And limit break along with casting spells with mana from the outside of a body or Freya's ability to use knives are one-time tricks. You, as a reader, should just forget about them entirely, just as the author did. Every hardship is resolved with an ace from a sleeve, which you are not presented beforehead, like the power of a true hero (divinity) or the fact that Guren is bound to the MC with her very soul.See the pattern? These books are crawling with plotholes, insufficient writing, poor world building and forgotten Chehov's guns. To enjoy it, you either have to turn off your brain or entirely rewrite it. Yes, this story has a bunch of good ideas, like Bullet getting to be more complex character than he's initially presented, interesting dynamics of Keyaru's character, complicated themes like politics and "while cooking an omelette, you have to break eggs" thing, but they're highly outshined by the actual issues.Let's not ignore the elephant in the room anymore. Keyaru's character is inconsistent. He dreams of a happy life, but lets himself and the others be hurt just to have some foundation for a revenge up until the 9-th volume when he can just rip a d*ck of the one who tried to violate him - wow, progress! Cut this out, and nothing changes. He says that he respects and doesn't want to change Kureha in the 2-nd volume just to say he "maintains" her in, like, the 5-th one, which literally means messing with her brain when initially he just made her love him with his rod!The characters dynamics could be interesting, but everyone around Keyaru are just dumb bi... Mislead women. Freya will never know she's the princess, there will be no sincere dialogue between them, which could make him love her. Kureha never gets to know that Ellen is her beloved Norn. Norn is a queen figure, and she has nobody to recognize her in a royal palace! Guren could be an ideal person to change Keyaru for the better, but no! Tsukiyo left her as a foolish mol*sted child! And Keyaru... You know what he said about getting back to the original body? "I no longer need to push myself"... So, you think that the man who r*ped, slaughtered, maimed and tortured people while enjoying every bit of it pushed himself? Boy, do I even need to explain how s*upid this is?He said he loved his women, all of them. But why? Because they're good in bed? Because they have no other functions than s*x and fights. Nobody cared for him, nobody really cherished him, nobody supported him. And yet, somehow we're supposed to believe he loves them?Anyway, this story is written for money, and now that it's enough, Tsukiyo Rui decided to stop writing... Or he just doesn't know how. I really hope him NOT to publish the 10-th volume. For such sloppy work doesn't need to be continued.By the way, the only "improvements" of LN upon the WN are few added s*x scenes (like 4-5 for the entire series), 3 new chapters and... That's it. Plotholes are completely untouched.
