Negatte mo Nai Tsuihou Go kara no Slow Life? ~Intai Shita Hazu ga Nariyuki de Bishoujo Gal no Shishou ni Nattara Naze ka Mechakucha Natsukareta~ - Ch…

[Kaito57]

Oh, please, go tell his daddy... I DARE YA !!

Seriously, hope shit hits the fan soon : I wanna see some well-deserved Karma !!

 

[Kaito57]

Start a war with the whole world while we're at it, why wouldn't he

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[reby]

"I'm giving you a fair warning" he says by purposefully hiding his power to provoke and prove a point.
God I hate how the author idealizes fourth stage morality as if it's the peak.

 

[wandere]

This trope exists in manga because it is a common and real occurrence in Asia. It's ridiculous and absurd, but sadly also true. I mean, a lot of what happens in corrupt guilds and nobles in fantasy manga merely reflects how rotten and inept the Japanese government is at its core, while presenting a facade of peace, order, control and efficiency to the rest of the world.

I find I dislike the trope regardless. I find myself still reading this out of curiosity when a new chapter pops up despite essentially knowing the plot, but the spite-driven power fantasy that puts up a facade of being cooler with a protagonist who is "easy-going", "calm", or "just a chill guy" is just kind of lame. No interest in fixing the system, just reacting to whatever comes their way and their way in particular. It's selfish and weak-willed in a subtle way, and not the good kind of selfish.

 

[Chronigan]

"I'm giving you a fair warning" he says by purposefully hiding his power to provoke and prove a point.
God I hate how the author idealizes fourth stage morality as if it's the peak.

I learned something new today.

 

[wandere]

"I'm giving you a fair warning" he says by purposefully hiding his power to provoke and prove a point.
God I hate how the author idealizes fourth stage morality as if it's the peak.

I had to look this up, but that puts a name to the complaints I've had about a lot of "Well everyone else buys slaves, I might as well buy one" morality. I'd like to see more characters that have a genuine personal sense of morality but I guess you wouldn't be getting that in something like this because that would require characterization.

 

[Chronigan]

I find I dislike the trope regardless. I find myself still reading this out of curiosity when a new chapter pops up despite essentially knowing the plot, but the spite-driven power fantasy that puts up a facade of being cooler with a protagonist who is "easy-going", "calm", or "just a chill guy" is just kind of lame. No interest in fixing the system, just reacting to whatever comes their way and their way in particular. It's selfish and weak-willed in a subtle way, and not the good kind of selfish.

If you think about it, you can't have an all powerfull mc that cares about the world and wants to change it because they would succeed quickly and then there would be nothing for them to do.

 

[14Darius28]

If it had happened deep inside the dungeon, with no witnesses, the jerks could've been burned to ash and their deaths written off as probably due to monster attacks. They confronted the MC in front of a security camera, which means they're either stupid, or confident that their political influence can get any incriminating evidence suppressed. But I'm assuming this world has S-rank authorities who can be sent to brutally punish MC if he goes around outside of the dungeon threatening guild employees or politicians, regardless of whether they had it coming.

Either that or they might. Just maybe had an idea that attacking a retired adult in a place with no cameras might end up in their deaths. So whether they were to win legally or not they could at the very least survive it.

 

[Burner5]

i mean...the guy heard the facts about what happened and still blamed mc for it. i don't think its that illogical for them not to worry about getting caught.

As for mc having top-quality gear and dismissing that level of monsters, it could be a bluff.

The guy who blamed the MC was trying to ssve face when the inevitable scandal breaks. However, you are right about them not needing to worry about being caught if they know an imfluencial person.
Even if it was a bluff, it isn't logical to charge right at him with zero information.

Yeah, i mean it's not like it's a common occurrence in Japan or Korea or wherever for the children of big corporate groups or politicians to act like it's their own authority... right?

Just because a behaviour is common, doesn't mean it is wise.

 

[Valahuir]

This story is such a glorious trainwreck.
Awful in a fun sort of way, can't wait to see how this get more people pissy at him who somehow doesn't know who he is.

 

[MisterMango]

This is giving me manhua vibes, i do not mind

Damn I was going to make the same comment. Manhua-tier misunderestimating the SSS Class protagonist. The Japanese flavor is that he's herbivorous.

 

[outinthegardener]

Also, i wonder why its always the ones who's parents are rich or has a steady position that always end up being the rotten one, lol.

I'll distinguish between IRL examples, and the exaggerated fictions in manga. But I think this is a real life problem, and it's a consequence of social hierarchy and material privileges like income inequality or private schools.

I can speak on this better in western society, as a westerner, but one of the root cultural beliefs is Calvinism. Calvin said that God has predestined a select few to get into heaven, while the rest are doomed to hell. We can identify who God's select are by how their lives are going. Are you respected, wealthy, have a hot wife? God must approve of whatever you are doing. The Calvinists built Calvin Towns- Communites for those approved by God. In Calvin Town, people were expected to live "moral" lives, but be wary against immorality within. Surveillance and punishment were part of the social fabric. But this worked differently among different social classes- The lower classes sought to exclude outsiders for being immoral (and poverty is seen as immoral) but the wealthy were treated like nothing they did could have been immoral, because God rewarded them with wealth.

So we arrive at this theological framework where being poor makes you suspicious, and the lower rungs of society are constantly pushing each other off the bottom rung. The wealthy are never suspicious, no matter what they did to get their wealth. Slavery, fraud, racketeering, sexual crimes, founding a genocidal colony overseas- Doesn't matter how many bodies you rack up. Your wealth justifies it. It's an ideological basis for the two-tiered justice system dividing the working class and the capitalist class.

This behavior is taught to the children of the wealthy. The sense of superiority, the dehumanization of the poor. Poor kids go to public school and get taught they need to work hard and sacrifice and obey the bosses. Rich kids go to private boarding schools where everyone believes they are superior by birth, and they are destined to rule over their servants, and if they want resources or a woman they get to take it. If they ever get into serious trouble they are given powerful lawyers to protect them.

What about outside of Western Societies? I think hierarchy and privilege tends to create a similar effect. Outside Calvinism there are other examples: the Divine Right of Kings, the Heavenly Mandate, or authoritarian loyalty to rules, and laws, and social order like under Confucianism. Children are warped by the ideologies of the privileged, and the most warped people seek to exploit others to reach that level of privilege.

The fantasy of stories like this is that the MC is a just observer who is powerful enough to resist tyranny, while most of us have no such power. The rule of law bends for the tyrants and punishes the masses.

 

[Mentholatum]

FYI, Karen's name is written as 火蓮.

火 (ka) = fire
蓮 (ren) = lotus

 

[kaminomikan]

august 27....

 

[wandere]

If you think about it, you can't have an all powerfull mc that cares about the world and wants to change it because they would succeed quickly and then there would be nothing for them to do.

Depends on how "all powerful" they really are I guess. I feel like the premise becomes increasingly scuffed the more overpowered you make the protagonist and the more corrupt you make the society until you're reaching a point where it becomes increasingly strange why they would not at least try to improve things. Like you would think it would be a liability or annoying in some way.

 

[Dalek-Bob]

FYI, Karen's name is written as 火蓮.

火 (ka) = fire
蓮 (ren) = lotus

I wondered about that, thanks!

I like that this magic system relies on knowledge rather than just standard game stuff. Him knowing to use magic to knock them out like that rather than just "at level twenty I learned Disable" is kind of neat, and suits the setting.

 

[Skyknight2003]

I mean, won't that guild employee just delete the camera footage, back up the dirt bags that he attacked them and have charges placed against him? Like that's what would happen in the real world at least haha.

 

[Wizardrone]

I want problems...always!

 

[TheWritingWriter]

Oh Right, this is the manga with the gold digger fiancée

 

[RamenRider]

I bet they try to erase the video.

That’s a great way to prove it happened. Admittedly this isn’t American law, but erasing evidence gets you absolutely reamed generally.