Holding people against their will is kidnapping. Mind controlling people for your benefit is a form of slavery. Any denial of agency and freedom is evil, even if there is no physical damage. Nea isn’t some innocent girl. She’s a 300 year old monster, raised by monsters, who were killed for doing...
MC is altering the timeline drastically. Friends are different people outside of a war torn, demon invasion. I understand his conflict but the circumstances are different than before
MC isn’t positioned in this situation positively. He could kill a king because the circumstances allowed him to do so freely.
What interests me more is his feelings for his female companions. His childhood crush was someone he never really got a true romance going on with. The elf was a fuck...
Only Lapis’ limbs are artificial. Her body is real. She’s questing the world to find her true limbs hidden by her parents. That’s her price to explore the human world.
It’s so satisfying to see the hero not be her but an actual good dude. MC is Still a bit too virginal though. He’s over a century old with his youth still. He should not be scared of women like this.
I went through the LN. Like so many of these stories, the ending is unsatisfactory. The backend ruins the MC and his origins. The author seems to find his ending then drags it out with twists that distort the story.