Holding people against their will is kidnapping. Mind controlling people for your benefit is a form of slavery. Any denial of agency and freedom is evil, even if there is no physical damage. Nea isn’t some innocent girl. She’s a 300 year old monster, raised by monsters, who were killed for doing...
MC is altering the timeline drastically. Friends are different people outside of a war torn, demon invasion. I understand his conflict but the circumstances are different than before
MC isn’t positioned in this situation positively. He could kill a king because the circumstances allowed him to do so freely.
What interests me more is his feelings for his female companions. His childhood crush was someone he never really got a true romance going on with. The elf was a fuck...
Only Lapis’ limbs are artificial. Her body is real. She’s questing the world to find her true limbs hidden by her parents. That’s her price to explore the human world.