Bah, what growth? He does 5 mins of training and is now ready to defeat the dude he had so much trouble with? Then what was the point in setting the enemy up?
I honestly find his reasoning complete bullshit and wonder if he's ignorant or just stupid.
He's not worth bothering with.
Author is trying too hard to redeem his 'special' character. Just give up on him already. Focus on the MC.
The MC needs to stop being so inconsistent. First, he's all "I'm not going to bother, let him go evil" then when it's his life on the line, he goes "Let's save her if we can!" and "He doesn't seem like that bad of a guy". Does he have that little faith in the people around him that if things...
So...they lost an apprentice and gained a slave/maid? Man, I wonder what Kiyo is getting out of this because this sounds like a raw deal for her. She gets told that she can't do what she dreamed of doing and then just has to take care of them as they do what she wanted to do.
This whole thing has gotten stupid already. I'd be actually interested if the MC lost this upcoming game and had to deal with the consequences of doing so. This whole feel-good tearjerker only worked once, once you start having it that every level is just being taken advantage of by the next...
It'd be nice if she were a genius of shogi and actually manages to beat the Urushi. Otherwise, as mentioned, she becomes more of a roadblock and not something that's mentioned much. You'd think the Library Committee girl would be more of a hindrance to the girl than Urushi though as I'm guessing...
He's really way too inconsistent with his desires. He's all "I should probably hide my amazing things" and then doesn't do anything of the sort. Then he decides to go along with random people with the excuse to himself that he'll leave. We all know he won't.
I honestly would prefer it if Gareed...