Boukensha License wo Hakudatsu Sareta Ossan Dakedo, Manamusume ga Dekita no de Nonbiri Jinsei wo Oukasuru - Vol. 4 Ch. 14.5

[Asta]

Which if precisely the same as ditching your friend because they are no longer useful to you.

How ?
I mean, you do realize they're not dicking around, adventuring for the fun of it ?
Think about it. A bunch of individuals, who're supposed to be (among) the top dogs, the best of the best, managed to fail several quest in a row.
This means that the quest they undertake are that difficult.

Take for example a start-up.
I'm fairly sure you're already aware of how hard creating a successful start up is.
Being friend is nice and all, but what you're saying is kind of arguing that you should keep incompetent friends in your startup in spite of the fact that it gives extra-work to you the rest of your team and that, with no hope of your friend ever getting better.
What Douglas did was trying to remain in the startup while knowing he'll only get worse, meaning he also knew that he'll make the others work harder and harder to make up for him and while fully knowing how hard working in a startup is in the first place and that just because the paycheck is nice.

The quests they accept match or are a little beyond their current level, they could loose their lives at every turn, and yet you think they should've kept Douglas around, when he had this curse ?
I'm not arguing that his teammates aren't asses, but I do understand how they might come to resent him.

 

[cor3zone]

@Asta Tag me if replying to my comment, coward.

They didn't need to keep him around, but they didn't need to cut him off from even friendship. They didn't need to laugh about him being useless, despite his efforts. They didn't need to laugh about him soon being dead, because of a curse (that the supposed 'Hero' probably put on him).

What they did, is completely abandoning their friend suffering from cancer, because he was a burden despite trying his damned hardest to help the start-up. They didn't just fire him, they left him to die alone, and Dario even laughed about it.

Fuck 'em.

 

[Asta]

@cor3zone Coward ? Lol, chill man.

"They didn't need to keep him around, but they didn't need to cut him off from even friendship. "

I'm guessing you're exclusively referring to Edmund and Dario, as they were the only ones acting like asses toward him.
So, what friendship ? If you remember Dario's reasons for hating him, and if you remember that they kept Douglas around until they couldn't, it's pretty clear that by the time he was kicked out of the party, Dario's hate for him was already near its peak, and well you wouldn't really consider someone you hate a friend, would you ?
I guess we'll know more about the reason behind the Edmund's animosity, with him being an important character, and making him being a dick for the sake of being a dick would make him quite boring, but by judging the way he was behaving in the first chapter, I'm fairly sure he wasn't found of Douglas either by the point he got kicked out.

"They didn't need to laugh about him being useless, despite his efforts."
They actually didn't.

"They didn't need to laugh about him soon being dead, because of a curse (that the supposed 'Hero' probably put on him). "

Yup, and it was a dick move, we do agree on that.
But, and hear me out on this, we can't just act as if Douglas has no responsibility for his current state.

"What they did, is completely abandoning their friend suffering from cancer, because he was a burden despite trying his damned hardest to help the start-up. They didn't just fire him, they left him to die alone, and Dario even laughed about it"

See ? That's precisely what I'm talking about.
It makes no sense to compare his situation to someone who has cancer, because he had a choice.
As a matter of fact, he had a choice to make every single time he used a spell.
By his own admission, in the first chapter, he continued to be an adventurer because he didn't know what else he could do and he felt he already invest too much time into being an adventurer to start doing something else.
By his own admission, still in the first chapter, he would keep using spells even after he got sick because of his pride.

From the very beginning, he could've just done, well, what he was eventually forced to do : Find a way to live without relying on spells. He managed to do it way after loosing all of his fame, connections, and money, so he certainly could've done it before, and much more easily.
He literally could've chosen to not loose a single of his max-HP after he learned about his sickness/the curse.
It's not his fault for being cursed, but the reason Douglas was nearing death at the beginning of the story was Douglas himself.

Hell, the reason Dario hated his guts was precisely because Douglas was hellbent to remain in the party in spite of the fact that he kept getting weaker, so if anything, he would've encouraged Douglas had the latter decided to quit the group himself.

As a matter of fact, we haven't been given any reason to think that any of the other members of his party would've resented him for quitting from the get-go out of concern for his health.

 

[cor3zone]

@Asta I literally don't even care about your opinions. Dario is an asshole. Have fun.

 

[Asta]

@cor3zone Neat !

 

[Sumatose]

aww dario is like your one and only homie

 

[Kirin-kun]

Great. A flashback sob story incoming.

 

[BigIron69]

This child in this thread calls someone a coward for not tagging him then when tagged replies "I don't care about your opinion" lmao why are there so many children on this site.

 

[1059212]

@cor3zone that was an embarrassing display bro.

 

[cor3zone]

@1059212
Likewise, coward. At least I have a recognisable username.

 

[1059212]

@cor3zone Lmao! Oh god it keeps getting worse. Stop before you hurt yourself even more with cringy ass 6th grade insults bro.

 

[cor3zone]

Pathetic.

 

[lionfromnorth]

Backstory is going to vindicate an asshole character. Oh boy, let's see where this goes. He is not so much of an asshole in this chapter.

 

[Winchan]

Dario isn't so bad after all.

Alan tho...