I retract my previous statement about him not taking the exp for himself even a little. I didn't expect for him to have a way to regain the exp and for them to be stupid enough to kick him out knowing that. But if they understand the meaning of kicking him out, why the fuck are they laughing at him being LVL 1?
Seconded that this solves
that question but makes all the
other pressing questions of how the hell we're supposed to believe this, all the more pressing.
Like okay, let's even say they never ever listen to him and didn't know how his power works even though he literally said what would happen during the chapter. Even then? What the hell was he doing putting up with all their abuse? They haven't even put in the token classic "these were my bestest friends!" excuse yet. Are we just supposed to believe he has an obscure masochism fetish...?
IDK it feels too much like this is just the premise that the author wanted for their power fantasy and approached everything backwards from the conclusion, without thinking any of it through.