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'Okay, this is another self-indulgent fantasy, I doubt it's going to be very... Huh?' Wouldn't it spoil the twist, though? I wonder if that aspect is significant enough storywise to be tagged in the first place.

Just like ex-pickpockets who raise awareness about protecting your belongings in a crowd, and just like reformed burglars who explain how to deter intruders, an actual degenerate is the right person for sniffing out anything suspicious in seemingly wholesome content. Good work, sensei!

That Amelie is getting annoying. It would be nice if they could ditch her after the exam.

The one thing I found the least derivative here is that MC is a mountain of a man who's already fighting on the front line, rather than some wimpy baggage handler with a hidden cheat combat skill.

He drew blush lines that he actually saw on her face?

Just gives them a harsh beating and says they're even? Okay... I like how the healer is all like 'I can fix them'.

At this point I'm not sure if the authors themselves know why. It seems like they simply copy a stock plot device without thinking much of it, and they handle the topic in the most baffling ways. Makes you wonder which story even started the trend and how long ago.

At first I somehow misread that he requested an ear cleaning of all things...

It's almost as if including the tropes was required by the law or something. Some authors are merciful enough to speedrun through these copy-paste developments to get them out of the way as fast as possible, and then them might throw in something less derivative.

Rather than boiling, alcohol was used to purify and preserve water. People of all ages drank diluted beer or wine, while boiling water (to make tea) was more of a thing in East Asia.

These days? Isn't it a trope with quite a long history by now? I wonder who came up with it first, because it's such a recycled and copy-pasted story beat, that some authors treat like a mandatory element of fantasy. Sometimes slavery is a minor occurrence that gets completely disregarded later...

At least she's no longer sparring in her maid dress. I swear, every time a character dons a maid outfit, they wear it all the time: while working, while traveling, during combat, on formal and casual occasions - everywhere except in bath or in bed.

That's quite a leap from trusting no one and only looking out for yourself to becoming friends and exchanging favors. How about 'companions' or perhaps 'a team'?

Video game logic, as is the norm with these stories, is what establishes what the characters can do. As a potion user it's safe to assume he won't be handling javelins, shuriken, bombs or even rocks, as if it wasn't even possible for him to equip those.

None of these characters are on the same wavelength, hilariously so. Takasugi and Iiko are quickly getting in tune, though.

He's in an unusually fine mood despite hardships. That surely can't mean anything good.

I get that this is a dangerous world but these kids are scarily okay with killing in cold blood, and in gruesome way too. Also, I just realized that spiders aren't supposed to have antennae.

This feels strangely western, as in I've seen this exact premise in a million cartoons before.

This is what caught my attention, too. They don't look like hopeless people who experienced generations of systemic neglect, their condition is still a fairly recent development, they remember better times and are willing to go back. The adults seem like good people wanting to live decent lives...

The progress is quick and bold, but the results are kind of off. At this rate he'll get her to go on a date with him and she'd still be oblivious about his true intentions... And about her own mixed signals she's sending. It's interesting how she's aware of how other see her.