TL;DR this shit is dumb, riddled with plotholes, and the MC is retarded as hell.
edit: the villains are dumb as well, so there's that too.
i'm too lazy to reread this, so, is there a reason why he isn't just shanking the king and/or the princess?
every reason i can think of right now ends up being a plothole except maybe that he's hesitant to stab a bitch in the eyes, but that isn't even hinted at.
still, that kind of reasoning would be weak as he isn't even fliching when killing monsters,
killing one or two humans who want to exploit you, and essentially send you to your death shouldn't be THAT hard, not like he doesn't have the opportunities or means to do so.
maybe he's worried about what would come after he kills the king/princess? meh.
this whole setup just doesn't make much sense and/or is riddled with more plotholes than any swiss cheese could muster holes.
you could argue that the MC's negligent bahaviour, and the correction of it, could be his motivation for his actions (i know pretty weak motivation, but eh),
but that wasn't even what the author wanted his motivation to be.
---> he's too powerless to change their situation? more like too dumb.
@Eschaton plot holes are inconsistencies within a story that make events illogical or straight up impossible to occur when the logic of that story is taken into consideration.
that's why it doesn't make any sense that the MC isn't doing jack shit to prevent the king's and/or princess's plans even though he's capable and knows their motives
or the negligence with that curse thingy, everybody knows that someone was cursed, but nobody raises any suspicions to if another classmate could be cursed after the MC points it out.
they just go out of the dungeon. wouldn't it be more logical to check the rest of the class, cause they spent alot of time close to each other,
so, the probability of another classmate being cursed is rather high, right? no mention of that anywhere.
the list goes on and on. (i may be wrong on my examples, but i can't be bothered to reread everything, my point should be clear regardless.)
that wouldn't be a problem if everyone was portraited as incompetent dumbasses, but they aren't, quite the opposite in fact,
at least the author is trying to make them look competent, i guess?
hope that helps.
@monkey123 that's what's called a deus ex machina. that would make "sense" in that situation, but there's nothing that hints at such a thing being possible, like, at all and thus would be an ass pull if i've ever seen one. and even if the MC was to fail, he has his op stealth and can gtfo whenever he wants.