cruelty isnt much in the face of insanity its when someone could poison you with humiliating ways and force you to detox yourself multiple times endlessly until you die
ill like to remind everyone that we had two isekai stories where the protag had a plot device that was their RV camper and another that was a smartphone
the plot is walking around the idea of each of the female characters not establishing how they know this person or information and having the protag being played around to get a simple answer
imagine it as a ball rolling down a hill with frozen it slows down to a crawl and wont get faster unless someone pushes it with stopped time its more of someone purposely stopping the ball reaching the bottom while everyone else's balls have already reached the bottom