The slavery issue aside, the other thing that bugs me about this chapter is the bit about the church and the toilet bowl.
Why would they be furious at him for using purification magic in a toilet? It's already been established that they use it on the city sewers on a regular basis. If anything...
When the MC showed up, they said the people on the island mostly just spend their time fishing. And it's not like they were also bringing in supplies from the mainland, there were no regular trade ships. The only ones on the island that weren't self-sufficient were the guild receptionist and the...
Even if they're not "natives" who have lived there for generations, they're still people that have built a community of their own through their hard work and dedication. I for one would be pissed if I spent years of my life working to build an idyllic tropical village with my friends and family...
I take issue with the tendency in Manga to treat "development" and city growth as an unambiguous good. It feels very... colonial. Nobody even bothered to ask the locals if they were okay with a group of strangers coming in and completely changing their community and whole way of life.
They finally hold the concert, Alex gets up on stage, starts playing, and just summons a bunch of lightning bolts that electrocute the entire audience. Turns out, that just happens whenever he plays now, whether he wants it or not
She's so skilled the guards can't even catch her, but nobody escapes the newspaper photographer. Unless this is like a Peter Parker situation? Selling pics of her own crimes to the paper?
So this girl wakes up from her magic coma and sees the cute boy she had a crush on has grown into a total DILF and is all like "I see this as an absolute win"
Gets in trouble for acting without orders and potentially causing issues, immediately decides to redeem himself by acting without orders and potentially causing issues
Did we read the same chapter? Y'all are talking like this isn't an extremely average low fantasy war. How are you gonna call the rebels "cunning" when all they did was raise an army and storm the capital? You set the bar so low it's practically on the floor
I'd agree if it weren't for the AI comment on page 15. That's not the sort of thing he would whisper out loud, and she wouldn't be confused by the term if it was just a visualisation of their non-verbal communication. That interaction only makes sense if she telepathically overheard his thoughts.
The most unrealistic trope in all of isekai is for a wealthy merchant to actually be travelling with goods himself, instead relaxing in luxury while his employees do all the work