YES! MC goes "Oh, interesting skill, quite young, a girl, hmmmm...."
And all the readers swallow the bait hook line and sinker.
And then they kill the kid off immediately. MMMM TASTY.
And I'm one of those idiots lol. That was my line of thinking, exactly.
"Oohh, a special archer? Are they going to get a new recruit? She is a woman, and a teen at that, surely..."
Nope lmao.
Just in the prev chapter I wrote about how naively I think, that I "expect the bandits to have a good side to them, so the MC won't have to kill them" -- and then I revert right back to it immediately.
God damn, some things are hard to change.
P.S: That being said, I feel like if she dropped her bow almost immediately, and tried to parley right then and there in a calm way, there may had been a path for her to survive. I mean, her alignment wasn't "evil", so if she "was smart about it", perhaps she could've been a Vegeta here.