Glad I'm not you, but yeah good hunt on your part.
I don't think that promise was made though, cause he just used it to restrict her, and didn't assault her.
Hell, in the first chapter he didn't kill the Dwarf who set him up with the rapist chick that almost got him killed. He clearly doesn't have a shit personality.
Keket has 999 years what do you mean?
What do you mean no political drama? The assassin, the warden, the succession isn't political drama?
You know we haven't even reached 10 chapters and those are already plot elements right?
Also never even mentioned moral ambiguity XD
Harder than you. Those girls can kill him. The warden can kill him. He has a strong sense of responsibility so he feels a strong need to save Zeina. He's almost died twice now, both times very brutally, and it's not even been 10 chapters.
No his life isn't easy. It has a lot of benefits in some instances, but we can only enjoy them as passive observers from our comfy chairs. His life isn't that simple.
Shaggy-haired milquetoast isekai omfg. Who talks like this... People are so fucking judgemental of male MCs I swear to god. If he was a chick, you wouldn't be coming down on him nearly as hard. Dude's not boring. He killed when he had to, and even though he doesn't like it, keeps up with it. Hating on decent guys is so common now it's actually looped around to be being exhausting when people complain abou them.
No.
It's the line's like, "why the are you glaring at me? I can fucking glow you know."
That kind of self-aware humor where he's fighting an overly cocky intelligent glasses type character and outmaneuvers him to sock him in the face.
It's villains, who say shit like, "I've seen through you!" Only to get their shit kicked immediately after cause the protag actually has brains and can strategize and think on his feet.
It's the protagonist getting mad at the sneak attack lion, and promising he's gonna merc his ass b4 the fight. Then following on that promise, and telling the older brother "you should've paid attention."
Kuuma is absolutely fun as hell at watch.
DUDE'S BASICALLY DIED TWICE ALREADY XD
Alright bro I get it... you were speed reading nvm.
Ah yeah, he really restricted her when he ripped her shirt off and started rubbing her exposed chest with his tentacles. He also reached down her shorts with his tentacles and restricted her pussy. Yeah, real noble depiction of just innocently, non-sexually ripping a woman's clothes off and fondling her with tentacles. This author is so morally above me, it makes my sinner's heart shrink from his luminous virtue.
Look if this guy's one-liners seem really kickass to you, then good for you. I'm not impressed by "You sure you should be glaring like that? There are squids that can luminesce too, y'know." That line didn't make me laugh, chuckle, chortle, snort, sneeze, cough, or exhale harder than usual. I'm not even that impressed that he did it. It's really easy to take the bad guys by surprise when you can just whip out new powers we never knew about before whenever the author feels like it. You hype up him nailing that lion guy with a knife, and that lion guy literally did nothing to him. Why am I supposed to be impressed that Kraken-Man took down a guy who never even managed to lay a finger on him and didn't contribute to the fight in any way? All we saw him do was beat up on the female characters along with his brothers - characters whom they ambushed and have consistently been portrayed as weaker than Kraken-Man anyway. The only one who might stand a chance against him is Zeina.
Speaking of which, how is Zeina able to slice this huge fuck-off lion that killed 14 prisoners before her in half in one attack, so fast it's over in an instant, and yet she's too slow to push the bratty drow tsundere out of the way before getting slashed? If she sensed the attack coming, why didn't she immediately intercept and swing for the fences the second her enemy was identified?
Why did she prioritize shoving the dark elf out of the way, anyway? Zeina barely interacts with the other prisoners. We have no idea what her relationship to them is supposed to be. Does she know that Maryam's 10-year sentence for bodily injury was her beating up a noble that mistreated her friend? We don't know what the details behind Polina's sentence for "death by explosion" means, but I can already guess the author is going to make both her and Keket secretly actually be super nice people who were imprisoned on trumped-up charges and they're secretly innocent of any wrongdoing, just like Zeina and Maryam, thereby removing all the edge to them being prisoners so that they can be waifu material instead.
But if Zeina doesn't know that, then didn't she just risk her life to save this haughty, unrepentent elf who's been imprisoned for blowing people up? How are we supposed to gauge how much she knows about the other prisoners, who we barely, if ever see her talking to? Because if she takes the charges they were imprisoned on at face value, then she has no reason to believe that they're good people. If she believes Polina is actually imprisoned for blowing people up, then that means she just let herself get grievously wounded to protect a violent, unrepentant criminal. If Polina didn't actually commit a crime, or if there's a more complex reason that ultimately reveals she's actually a good person, then it's hard to buy that Kraken-Man over here "never has peace" when he's been put in charge of a gaol full of secretly nice girls who aren't actually vicious criminals and are also letting him watch them take their clothes off as well as taking their turns riding his dick.
I started this month with $1,700, and within the first week, $1,200 was subtracted for health insurance, home insurance, car insurance, and the cable, internet, and phone bill. That's $500 left to stretch for the rest of the month. I've got to subsist off of frozen dinners, canned peas, granola bars, and the rare Subway sandwich. Do not sit there and tell me that this schmuck is struggling when he was given incredible secret powers just by happening to land in front of a mythical creature - not by earning it, or proving he could use it well, by just being in the right place at the right time - and has to do the very very hard job of keeping women imprisoned who shouldn't be prisoners while they constantly show him their tits and asses and outright have sex with him the second he shows them anything resembling affection. If you think that's a hard life, then shit, man, good for you. You must have it real good if Kuuma's - Coomer's? - life looks hard by comparison.
It doesn't matter how much he gets beat up if he can just instantly recover from it with Kraken powers and some dank elf kush or whatever kind of bomb-ass edibles Polina made him eat in chapter 7, because I'll tell you what, I wouldn't get to just shove some leaves with magical elf bullshit on them and heal using powers that were just handed to me if I got stabbed. It will never matter what happens to Coomer or how badly hurt Coomer gets when he's got Kraken powers he can just switch on whenever the plot is done pretending it has stakes so he can just river dance all over the villain of the week. He'll get hit, he'll get blood on his face, one of the girls will bail his ass out, he'll go
Kraken Prism Power, Make Up! and it won't fucking matter.
The author will give the illusion that Coomer might be struggling, but will never commit to having him seriously, irreversibly fail at anything or meet an opponent he can't whacky arm-waving inflatable tube man his way out of, because that would ruin the wish fulfillment part of wanting to uncritically just be him, just be him effortlessly crushing anyone who defies him. Just like how the author will never commit to having any of the girls be serious, dangerous criminals, because then it'll be harder to make fanboys fap over their favorite one. "Oh, she's just understood! The people she blew up were evil mercenaries that some cartoonishly evil nobleman sent to chop down the dark elf forest! She didn't blow up any bad people!" You can't hype up Coomer for navigating the hard life of a prison guard surrounded on all sides by dangerous criminals while simultaneously making all the dangerous criminals just be misunderstood and imprisoned for unjust reasons and also hot girls who want to fuck him. You can try, but then anyone who hasn't bought into the self-insert projection fantasy will just immediately see through it.
