Arafoo Kenja no Isekai Seikatsu Nikki - Vol. 5 Ch. 28 - The Old Man Makes a New Encounter

[MangaDex]

 

[Kaarme]

Dude should ask extra pay for the need to fight monsters and assassins. But of course he won't because he loves those dwarves and want to get punched by them, hard M style.

 

[LARGames]

He keeps talking like if he's 80 years old...

 

[CT-9904]

Should've used [GALVANIZED SQUARE STEEL]

 

[Joonhas]

This chapter always grinds my gears, because it makes MC look weak as hell. He should be the most OP character in that world by all logic, and now he's evenly matched by some random assassin? What a huge let down after all that previous hype. He essentially knows all magic, to the point of himself creating new spells, and he can't come up with some spell to freeze/poison/paralyze this dude instantly?
Also, what's the point of making your world have magic, if you never use it in an interesting way? Like just choking/drowning this assassin dude using some basic water spell would've been way better than what we got.
Yeah go and choke into a banana author-san.

 

[VooXoo]

This is for me the worst chapter up to now, MC suddendly wasn't able to clap his enemy cheeks.
It was to make us see the other side wasn't a weakling, but it was too exagerrated, MC have the inherited cheats of the game, his levels, stats and skills are leagues above more or less everybody in that world, we did see the other guy having some trouble but for doing it well MC shoul dhave a thought about taking the guy alive and then going light and then the other guy having one about having to run away with all his strenght before it was too late, instead they were fairly matched, when we know that shouldn't be possible.
The explanation of real battle experience making MC unable to match the bastard doesn't hold up as the game was a full immersion VR, and we have already seen that the MC skills are for real and he ahve no hesiattion in killing evil.
So, yeah, the worst chapter as it was a forced tie that shouldn't be possible.

 

[icenta]

Mountain of smiling bodies. Is that you

 

[DTJames]

That guy absolutely have to be another reincarnated individual. There are 12 of them and we only saw one. No way native can match a level 1500 Sage. This is stupid lmao.

Bitch he's only 40 years old, he's still in his prime.

 

[SakuraOrihime]

That guy absolutely have to be another reincarnated individual. There are 12 of them and we only saw one. No way native can match a level 1500 Sage. This is stupid lmao.

Bitch he's only 40 years old, he's still in his prime.

Yeah, the masked dude is 100% isekaid too.

He even says "I guess no matter the world people still want power with no effort" in a past chap, if he's not isekaied, then whadaheck lol

 

[merce6]

Not surprise tho if he's also reincarnator why their strength are equal

 

[ZeroPunchMan]

This chapter always grinds my gears, because it makes MC look weak as hell. He should be the most OP character in that world by all logic, and now he's evenly matched by some random assassin? What a huge let down after all that previous hype. He essentially knows all magic, to the point of himself creating new spells, and he can't come up with some spell to freeze/poison/paralyze this dude instantly?
Also, what's the point of making your world have magic, if you never use it in an interesting way? Like just choking/drowning this assassin dude using some basic water spell would've been way better than what we got.
Yeah go and choke into a banana author-san.

Almost thought the same.. but if you really think hard it honestly still makes sense as this guy just close-quartered MC right off the bat and gave him almost no time to use even chantless magic like an actually competent enemy.

Zelos is mainly overpowered strictly because of his magical capability.. and not his hand-to-hand abilities even if he is seemingly top-tier in that department. It's almost as if y'all are treating MC like a straight-up physical monster like Arc from Skeleton Knight in Another World—who can literally throw hands with dragons. Not the case at all from what we've seen so far. In fact.. he seems almost like the polar opposite of Arc armed with extreme close-quarters skill while lacking raw striking power (Arc was a literal "bonehead" in swordsmanship early-on lol).

MC is much more like a Dragon Ball character whose energy-based attacks are orders of magnitude more powerful than their physical capabilities.

Even ignoring all that.. the guy who ambushed Zelos was shocked at how strong he was, and seemed like he decided to merely get away at the end thinking he didn't stand a chance against him. Not sure, but additionally suspect that guy was also using some sort ability to temporarily mimic Zelos's moves, as Zelos said himself it was almost like "fighting himself".

Anyways at the end of the day even if this dude could genuinely match MC in swordsmanship.. it was him—presumably at least an upper-tier swordsman—engaging in combat with his bread n' butter and yet still got matched by a freakin' mage who merely carries around swords as "contingency" weapons. Reason why that guy intelligently decided he didn't want the smoke and fled.

Also, I don't know why y'all are complaining since MC is hilarious & charismatic.. and at bare minimum 100x more entertaining than some shitty overpowered god isekai anime boy with little to no personality.

EDIT:
Looked at someone's rant comment in one of the more recent chapters.. and apparently he's someone the MC actually personally knows and sure as hell not some "random assassin".