Fed-Kun's army
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@sirflimflam Ideally slavery could just be removed from stories and there are much better methods to implement him finding the girl yes, but this is just how authors for isekai are nowadays, it's the easiest method. I don't really know whats up with Japan and slavery tbh, maybe they have some underlying desires or something? But the point here is that if slavery absolutely has to exist and there is no way to remove it from that world then his method of buying and essentially releasing her would be the most morally sound thing for him to do. If I was in his situation I would not be able to simply walk away after seeing that kind of shit and knowing that I had the opportunity to free them. Also I don't think he is paying into the slavery business because again, it was said those slaves were there because they were either in debt or criminals. The money they get from him is not being used to capture more slaves like in other manga, and the slaves seem to only be there because it is a form of punishment, they weren't ordinary people or rich nobles who were kidnapped solely to be sold to the slave business. The way I see it they are being treated more like criminals who have to serve a sentence since they are fed properly and treated humanely. Since this is based in what seems to be some kind of middle ages era it's safe to assume that criminals are treated humanely except the level of civilization is much lower than ours so the quality of treatment is lower.
Aside from all that, I do wish he could have found her in different circumstances, I am getting pretty bored of the slavery trope at this point. I guess to the author there is no lower point in life than being a slave and he wanted to emphasize that. The problem is that it's overused. Just like the rape trope which is the most boring and most effective "how can we piss off the reader" method of showing someone is evil. But other than that I feel most stories kind of just forget the whole master-slave thing later on and its really only used as a cheap method to gain a girl for the harem or to start some kind of relationship. I do feel it can be done properly where the reader does feel it was a good thing to do and the girl has actual character development and doesn't just instantly fall in love but slowly builds a connection with the mc and they both learn the good and bad sides of each other. But that's too hard for isekai it seems. rant over
Aside from all that, I do wish he could have found her in different circumstances, I am getting pretty bored of the slavery trope at this point. I guess to the author there is no lower point in life than being a slave and he wanted to emphasize that. The problem is that it's overused. Just like the rape trope which is the most boring and most effective "how can we piss off the reader" method of showing someone is evil. But other than that I feel most stories kind of just forget the whole master-slave thing later on and its really only used as a cheap method to gain a girl for the harem or to start some kind of relationship. I do feel it can be done properly where the reader does feel it was a good thing to do and the girl has actual character development and doesn't just instantly fall in love but slowly builds a connection with the mc and they both learn the good and bad sides of each other. But that's too hard for isekai it seems. rant over
