I mean the dude could've just had the attendant leave the room for a while and then explain to her that hey, he thought the cup was poisoned and his family are hostile to him.
Its kinda weird like, I hate him but I can’t really do, ‘cause when you’re desperate you’ll do anything and everything to survive, if its hurt your conscience and heart. Well, he did that
@LittleMiniMe It's not like Duroa has any power to help him they're both basically kids. Presuming his parents have full control over him, and she is an outsider, even if she told her parents what would that accomplish. That being said he still seems like a douchebag for no reason with mindcontrolling people he could just ignore (the blonde girl that wanted to laugh at him). I still don't really know how to feel about him, but with the teacup/tea specifically, I'd get why he wouldn't tell her.
Damn, no one wonder he turned out like this. Honestly, if I had a power like his I would definitely use it for revenge on people who tried to kill me. This explains the name thing and some of his seemingly capricious actions. But yeah, this ML still has so many flaws it’s unbelievable. Still more interesting than the overbearing CEO archetype though
...Still not an excuse for enslaving the entire household of servants. Not listening to your orders isn't good enough reason to do that.
Hundreds of people, people that have families and children. And I am pretty sure not all of them would be like that. Statistically it would extremely improbable for that to be the case.
I can see his reasons for getting his family away from the mansion. But his overuse of his powers on unrelated parties remains disgusting.
Edit. I want to point out that we have seen what overexposure/long term exposure to the mind control does via the original version of the protagonist's body. That's roughly what he is doing on a lesser scale to hundreds of other people.
@Elmithian i'm willing to give him a chance if he'd actually start trying to make things right but i don't see him doing it XD
and yea his tragic backstory doesn't really excuse anything, it explains it, it makes me feel a little more charitable in wanting some sort of redemption for him, but i'm not going to really look at him in any positive view until he actually does something to redeem himself
We can understand his actions now that we know the motivations, but that doesn’t justify or excuse them. 😔
I pity him, but like...i still don’t want him, as he is now, to be the ML. He comes off too childish & developmentally (emotionally & psychologically) immature. For good reasons, but still.
Goddamn. So he never explained things to her because he thought she was under his spell, and he did those things because he was scared of being killed for it.