I guess not just our MC has embraced his mental degradation but also our Author. they've taken one too many philosophy classses and due to that the writing bloats the story with lots of filler about the philosophy of human violence and everything else. it fills up too much of the panels to the point it loses on most important factors that a story should do is more worldbuilding, character introspection, retrospection. things that help enrich the plot and move it along rather than bloat the story with filler philosophical content that ends up being too repetitive. Author is too focused on flexing his philosophical classes that they forgot about the main thing about writing stories. we can continue with stuff like JI tae's coming to terms with his feelings for Maria and focus less on stretching things out between philosophy talk. it all started with that guy Lee then Ojin then everything else surrounding those two. they really poisoned the value of this story.