Jinmyaku Cheat de Hajimeru Hitomakase Eiyuu-tan - Vol. 2 Ch. 12 - Running Away

[MangaDex]

 

[ciera]

Thanks for the scanlation

 

[Slingerman]

You DON'T get between a pampering onee-san and her shota!

Thanks for translating!

 

[DankTheMan]

God damn, she's down bad

 

[CrimsonNanashi]

Seggs her already.

 

[chendu]

Tanks for the food

 

[Scallywag96]

The solution to his promblem...NETWORKING!

Who could have seen that coming?

 

[rphilly]

It feels kind of weird that the MC is somehow incapable of understanding that the purpose of sending him to fight against a deadly beast no one can beat let alone this little piss weak dude is to kill him. The Queen is asking me to drink deadly poison with no antidote, what could the purpose of this be. Like the whole point of his networking skill is emotional intelligence but that shouldn't mean he's dumb as bricks with basic logic.

 

[Volcanron]

It feels kind of weird that the MC is somehow incapable of understanding that the purpose of sending him to fight against a deadly beast no one can beat let alone this little piss weak dude is to kill him. The Queen is asking me to drink deadly poison with no antidote, what could the purpose of this be. Like the whole point of his networking skill is emotional intelligence but that shouldn't mean he's dumb as bricks with basic logic.

He already gets that, but he needs to understand her motive in sending him. Just needlessly killing someone that just arrived in the country wouldn't do her much good, especially as such a spectacle as against a legendary dragon. So the question is "what is in it for her?"

 

[jeremymd]

My main problem here is that so far, the MC has just been taking and taking and taking without giving anything back. That's not how you establish contacts and relationships. Either he did some huge favor for every single one of them in the past, or they are just asspulls on stand by for the author and the MC's convenience. Takes me out of it a bit.

 

[Kathartes]

My main problem here is that so far, the MC has just been taking and taking and taking without giving anything back. That's not how you establish contacts and relationships. Either he did some huge favor for every single one of them in the past, or they are just asspulls on stand by for the author and the MC's convenience. Takes me out of it a bit.

Bridging people can be the favor itself, it's not always necessary to help them in person. Like, when someone contracted a rare disease that most people never heard of, and he happened to know who can cure it. Or when he introduced Mail to her idol Reze, that was already considered doing her a little favor.

 

[Kikaibaka]

My main problem here is that so far, the MC has just been taking and taking and taking without giving anything back. That's not how you establish contacts and relationships. Either he did some huge favor for every single one of them in the past, or they are just asspulls on stand by for the author and the MC's convenience. Takes me out of it a bit.

Its a massive spoiler but if you want to know why everyone bends over backwards to fulfill MC's requests for assistance -

Spoiler

He was the leader of the legendary party "Seven Meteors" and was known as the Transformation King(because he would complete requests with one of the other six members of the party, which obfuscated his contributions because people assumed the leader of the party was a master of all instead of it being 6 different people helping MC) - because he hates accepting credit for actions the people he asks for help have committed, and he hates the hassles that come with being a celebrity he's been hiding his identity, and the only reason it gets exposed is because the King goes full retard and has to have why trying to assassinate MC is a humongous mistake explained to him.

 

[jeremymd]

Bridging people can be the favor itself, it's not always necessary to help them in person. Like, when someone contracted a rare disease that most people never heard of, and he happened to know who can cure it. Or when he introduced Mail to her idol Reze, that was already considered doing her a little favor.

The first deed, yes, that definitely counts as a favor worth repaying, and does establish a connection. Second one though, it's not like Mail asked him to introduce her to Reze. Also, their relationship with each other is still being worked on by the current story, and there's definitely progress happening there.

But again, my issue is all the off-screen/panel events before the manga starts that led him to have, what, 900 contacts at his beck and call? I guess I can buy into that since it's part of the initial premise, but I questioned myself, why can I more easily buy into the premise of One Punch Man even if they never portrayed his journey to become who he is. It's because it's easier to buy into, since it only involves one person. But 900 people in the world being his "get out of jail free" card demands a lot more from me.

 

[jeremymd]

Its a massive spoiler but if you want to know why everyone bends over backwards to fulfill MC's requests for assistance -

Spoiler

He was the leader of the legendary party "Seven Meteors" and was known as the Transformation King(because he would complete requests with one of the other six members of the party, which obfuscated his contributions because people assumed the leader of the party was a master of all instead of it being 6 different people helping MC) - because he hates accepting credit for actions the people he asks for help have committed, and he hates the hassles that come with being a celebrity he's been hiding his identity, and the only reason it gets exposed is because the King goes full retard and has to have why trying to assassinate MC is a humongous mistake explained to him.

See, that's another thing that seems contradictory to me. The guy's "power" is establishing connections and managing them properly. And yet, how exactly do you do that if you don't want to acknowledge yourself and accept credit graciously. I'd surmise that it's because it's part of the stoic badass shounen template, the guy who walks away from explosions, albeit in this case, more figuratively. The initial premise of this manga could really work and can be genuinely interesting, but they should have thought more about who and how the MC should act.

Imagine if on the outside, he was really amiable but not too loud, not trying to hog glory but still trying to spread his name around. On the inside though, what if he was purely transactional. What if he was just acting most of the time to garner success and spread his influence, but not more than necessary. He could have been very calculating in his interactions, a little bit like Eminence in Shadows where there are people he decidedly does not want any contact with. I dunno. To me, as it is so far, it all seems half-baked.