The “eroge cutscene” gimmick really sucked the life out of this. There’s an attempt to write the scene as a depiction of the world‘s brutality, lawlessness, and the harsh power dynamics of a strict levelling system. But it‘s framed within a half-hearted video game gag that kills the tension and sells what could have been a defining moment of setting stakes into a disassociated cowardly psychopathy from the MC. It’s a flat scene that’s neither tense nor funny. Pick a lane, author.