The story keeps calling the MC a genius, but how exactly is he a genius? He seems like an idiot. I'm not calling his desire idiotic (although it is), but he's utterly lacking social wisdom, he doesn't possess even Terminator level of understanding of psychology, and he can't come up with elementary strategies and plans. He can't even fricking learn from his own mistakes, which is something an average dog could do no problem. That's some genius indeed.