Dungeon ga Arawarete 5-nen, 15-sai de Dungeon ni Idomu Koto ni Shita. - Ch. 18

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Holy shit he actually did it.

I genuinely thought MC was gonna back down at the last moment and it would be a classic scenario of: "MC spares the bully, the bully then gets killed by the follow-up villain to maintain MC's moral purity (read: so that the MC can continue being a pussy without any repercussions)"

Glad to see that the author had some balls to actually let the MC murder his abusers.
 
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I like that the MC felt it right to apologize to the mother. I forget that they're still in High-school. He has his morals about him still.

I also like that it was immediately said that his mom is also a horrible person so there's no need to feel bad about making a mother lose her kid lol.
 
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why not informing the mother of the deceased that her son was threatening people with murder and rape, then started a duel to the death to torture someone who he deemed to be defenseless?
ikemoto's death is a relief for his victims. if anything, his entourage shouldnt have been spared either.
 
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why not informing the mother of the deceased that her son was threatening people with murder and rape, then started a duel to the death to torture someone who he deemed to be defenseless?
ikemoto's death is a relief for his victims. if anything, his entourage shouldnt have been spared either.
Bro, did you not read the chapter?

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The only thing I don't get, is why the MC was "told": "Don't do it" (lie to the mom? Tell the mom anything at all?)

Seems like it'd wrap things nicely, and also avoid a scenario where the mom might start irrationally dumping her angst and grief on the MC, and then another scumbag is added to the story. <_<

Anyway,
I also agree about the MC -- given how pandering this story overall is,
Holy shit he actually did it.

I genuinely thought MC was gonna back down at the last moment and it would be a classic scenario of: "MC spares the bully, the bully then gets killed by the follow-up villain to maintain MC's moral purity (read: so that the MC can continue being a pussy without any repercussions)"

Glad to see that the author had some balls to actually let the MC murder his abusers.
You'd expect shit like this to actually happen, like elrorro said.
It's one of those moments, where I find it genuinely incomprehensible, how us as readers (of either LNs or manga) can articulate how "pussy-footing MC, has the world solve his problems for him, just to preserve his moral persona in the story" is a beaten trope that nobody likes, to the point pretty much everyone in the comments verbally celebrate a shounen MC actually fucking doing anything proactive to defend themselves against explicit and egregious evil.

I.E: How the fuck is this not the norm? What, Jap editors force the authors to maintain "the moral purity of their MCs" or something? Even shitty WNs that have no editors? I don't get it.
 
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i get he wants to tell the mother that her pos son is dead, but... wouldn't it be better to just not? I mean, she'll more than likely go on a vendetta run for MC's head and quite possibly hire some other adventurer/mercenary/assassin to go after him in the dungeon. Idk just seems like a dumb move🤷🏻‍♂️
 
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I think he should tell the mother. Let her know exactly what her decisions caused. Whenever there is a horrible and disgusting person you can almost guarantee that there is a parent behind them that supports the behavior and makes sure its never punished. Even in the end the bully thought mommy would protect him since he never felt repercussions other than that 1 time he was punched which led him to hit harder.
 
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I.E: How the fuck is this not the norm? What, Jap editors force the authors to maintain "the moral purity of their MCs" or something? Even shitty WNs that have no editors? I don't get it.
While I have a lot of issues with Manwha and Manhua (ultra-nationalism getting force-fed to you for like half the story, 10 page long racist rants against non Chinese/Koreans that would make a 1800s plantation owner do a double take, overall just a hyper focus in individualism or communism (no in-between) that stifles the character development of everyone who's not the MC, etc). One thing I'll always respect about their MCs is that they won't hesitate to slime a bitch at any given moment.
 
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I.E: How the fuck is this not the norm? What, Jap editors force the authors to maintain "the moral purity of their MCs" or something? Even shitty WNs that have no editors? I don't get it
I also don´t get it... but then i remember the whole deal about idol culture and how derange that is, and then i believe that an editor would say "sorry but we can´t have our moral goal type MC killing, they must be like Batman, capturing the Joker but never, you know, nipping it in the bud, regardless of the mountain of corpses ever increasing because of that"

MC kills the obvious bad guy (the last, "but mommy will cry" was perfectly disgusting, as one would expect from that guy) and that is good, i would actually have liked him to have a couple of seconds "on air" to realize he was done for (i don´t know, he was high level, so a perk from that?), but that is just me wanting karma to be longer. Also like that the MC still wants to talk with the mom, sure nothing good will come out of that, but i like the principle.
 
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I think he should tell the mother. Let her know exactly what her decisions caused. Whenever there is a horrible and disgusting person you can almost guarantee that there is a parent behind them that supports the behavior and makes sure its never punished. Even in the end the bully thought mommy would protect him since he never felt repercussions other than that 1 time he was punched which led him to hit harder.
So, you want the Mom to be on a personal vendetta to kill him now? If you subscribe to the nip problems in the bud solutions, you don't go out of your way to make more problems for yourself.
 

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