I checked and yeah there is the poster, parents mentioning it and some other kid being snatched. My suspension of disbelief is being shot in the alley that kid was kidnapped in then because why in heavens name would anyone let their 7 year old daughter walk home alone when they previously had her with a guard escort.
IIRC, the kids did have bodyguards when they went out, but weirdly Ashella's dad sent her home by herself afterward. Then Aldo went after her without telling anyone.
It's a contrivance, which in doses can be fine. It doesn't ruin the plot outright but it was obviously to bring in how grimdark the setting is which then makes it hurt the overall worldbuilding. I think the bigger problem is the brisk pace the outside world is introduced with. We get presented the not completely safe but not overtly violent setting. Immediately after we get child kidnapping, assaulting and unhinged dismembering of them and a gruesome fight to the death.
At this point if I was an adult and had just saved Aldo, I'd put the cooperative kidnapper to the sword too. In this kind of a world how much does a, "I'll never do it again" mean.
"you are to refrain from doing anything reckless from now on and reflect on your actions" dude? who left their childern unatended in the first place, without any guards following them? this one is entirely on the dads and the guards
Umm, sorry dead ghost dudes, but it's definitely you guys's fault, not his.
And what the hell, the knights just killed all the kidnappers (minus that one dude) just like that? Take them alive! Make their every waking moment hell! Let them rot in prison forever or something! Now the kid's got ptsd because of you guys, when he only killed one guy!
fair enough, but the fact that only the "5" year old kid got a bad feeling about the 7 year old walking through town alone sets off all kinds of idiot bells about the actuall adults that should have known better. if she got an escort in the first place he probably wouldn't have chased after her
Some countries people are being raised for the first time ever to think that all killing, even fully justified and Good killing, is bad and traumatizing. This conditioning is weakening their defenses far more than it would be in a more natural mindset. This is one of several reasons why PTSD is only common in some armies and not others.
Pretty much this. Modern educational structures are set up to benefit the plutocrats, indoctrinating the masses "fighting back is bad. m'kay?" Because that ideology benefits the elites in power.
As soon as shit gets real, like Ukraine/Poland vs Russia, those ivory tower policies get thrown out right quick. Look at government propaganda from WWII, either side. As soon as it's convenient, they'll switch. There's a term for people who subscribe without thinking critically: "useful idiots".
Kid does need some therapy though. But people have been getting over it for several tens of millennia. Evolving backwards to be traumatized to necessary killing is only recent culture, last 100 or 200 years or so. Coincidental with popularization of "internment/prisons" in France as a punishment. Before that, problematic individuals were simply killed/maimed.
This is especially true in a medieval society like MC's where bloodshed is common. I call this the "just call the Isekai police" plothole. Mainly driven by editorial censors at publishers, or underinformed authors.
Case in point: I read the WN (ch8p3) where this is from. This melodrama is 100% because of Manga editorial department forcibly injecting this absurd "murder is bad, m'kay? it's dirty!" trope for publisher censorship/editorial interference:
Now, I’m alone in my room, staring at the ceiling. I’m calmer than when I cried to my father, and I have a little more composure.
(I’ve realized something from this experience. Life in this world is far cheaper than in Japan. I can’t cling to Japanese values, or I might not survive. I need to distinguish between allies and enemies and be ruthless when it comes to enemies… And if I plan to leave this house in the future, I should learn not only magic but also martial arts. Otherwise, I’ll regret it someday.)
Until now, it all felt like a game or a novel, and there was a certain detachment from reality. But this time, experiencing life and death, I truly felt the reality of being reincarnated in another world, and I made a renewed determination to live in this world.
fair enough, but the fact that only the "5" year old kid got a bad feeling about the 7 year old walking through town alone sets off all kinds of idiot bells about the actuall adults that should have known better. if she got an escort in the first place he probably wouldn't have chased after her
That is very true. So we go back to your previous statement of her father being an idiot, and the MC's father being an idiot for allowing him to let a little girl go home on her own
Cool story. But I still don’t understand why so many mangaka seem to have literally never laid eyes on a child before. Is it really necessary for him to be 5? Even with magic 5 year olds simply are not that strong, period. Really weird choice that ruins the immersion
