Our protagonist the Super Toddler has a special skill. No, it's not "Appraisal" or whatever skill the author considers useless but is secretly overpowered (shocking! who could have known?!). This particular Boss Baby cannot stop solving other peoples' entire lives for them. It's like a weird mix of wish-fulfillment and iyashikei. On the one hand, everyone's cool, and they have... some personality. Not a lot, but enough that you know who's who and (more importantly in the eyes of the story) how big their numbers are. On the other hand, this is a series where the protagonist is clearly a functioning adult at all points in their isekai life, but they don't see any potential problems with evaluating people based purely on their stats screen. The Stat Screen Meritocracy is absolute, and our friend Bobble Boy solves racism in the first chapter, classism in the next, a family coping with a tragic loss the one after that, and in general everything is just solved by Ars (age 3), ez pz. There's absolutely no tension for the first 18 chapters (the point to which I've read to so far). Regardless, as We Hate Isekai has already memed, I'm going to keep reading this because I have fucking awful taste, and there's something compelling about the characters, especially after they start working for Ars. It's almost like the series is better the less Ars is in it, which is a bit strange since he's not a bad guy, he just can't hold himself back from making everyone around him happy, despite their situations. For example, Charlotte (S-rank magic) absolutely dunks on him when they first meet, calling out his entire lifestyle as a petit (heh) bourgeois who in the end is attempting to purchase her much like the slave traders she despises.
Then she gets captured and Ars shows up just in time to save her. Ritsu beats up the slavers and Charlotte's totally cool now. Ez pz.
Then there's Rosel. Rosel has a severe lack of self-esteem related to his family and his dead mother (who he blames himself for killing during childbirth).
Ars gets Rosel to read a bunch of books. Rosel's really good at book reading. Also, is it really that weird to teach yourself how to read? Maybe that's a Japanese thing that doesn't translate very well to a phonetic language. Anyway, Rosel's newfound Book Learnin' (he is, of course an S class Elite Miko Reader) he uses to just own the shit out of his dad's entire lifestyle, because it's not an isekai if you're not showing those dirty fantasyworlders the power of the Toddler Technocracy. Rosel's Trap House (he builds an enclosure with a trap door, then paints the door yellow because fantasy hogs hate yellow) is perfect in every way (it's even humane, somehow, thanks to herbs? i don't really know how forest management and sustainable hunting practices arise in a preindustrial world with plentiful animal life, but the author felt it was very necessary). Unfortunately for Ars Rosel, his dad is not happy with the trap Rosel innovated out of The Land of Books. This is an exciting development after 14 chapters of Problem Solved, but of course Ars ends up solving the problem even harder after that, and this six year old is now responsible for a family overcoming their grief for the loss of a loved one. By getting them to stand on the roof at night and talk about how cool Rosel is. Thankfully there's another 3 year timeskip after that and things start getting promising again, although that's also where the current translation is at so we'll have to see.
