Tsuihousha Shokudou e Youkoso! ~Saikyou Party o Tsuihousareta Ryourinin (Lv. 99) wa, Inaka de Nengan no Boukensha Shokudou o Hirakimasu!~ - Ch. 58 - …

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He's got poison touch. I bet his backstory will now be he was jealous of the MC because he could cook without constantly worrying about accidentally poisoning someone, so he got the MC kicked out of their noble family by poisoning the meal he made.
 
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I really hated that hiding the wound part. Why would she hide that (clearly) unknown poison attack that will definitely become a problem in later episode, rather than; here's a thought that will blow your mind, JUST ASK SOME ONE TO HEAL IT!!!!!
It happens a lot with more stoic people (yes people, not just characters,) they either do it to save face or because they don't want others to worry. It's actually how common of a flaw doing something like this is for people, especially for those that feel they have to present a certain level of strength for those around them (especially someone close like a student or family member.) Even worse is that it happened in the process of protecting Hezmoch, which would make her feel guilty (though I get the feeling they were both always a target, which is why Heath was willing to cut his losses here, he definitely wasn't done, but he's also doesn't seem the type to just leave without accomplishing something.)
 
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I really just hate villains who are so OP against secondary characters. Maybe I’m getting old but just having the MC be able to go against the bad guy is so boring. Why read any chapters until the final fight?
That's rather presumptuous, this was just the first fight involving Heath, of course he's going to wreck house a bit so his initial strengths can be established, and he wasn't even that overly op in this chapter either, he landed a total of one blow and took several. The problem is that he knows their abilities and such better than they know his and their goals are different, it's a lot easier to be on the side aiming for the kill than to be on the side that needs the enemy alive for one reason or another (like the fact that there are a lot of questions they still need answered to stop any plans he might have that wouldn't need to be alive to continue and the other individuals he associated with so they can full root out the problem instead of waiting on their hands until the groups he's connected with make another move.) It's too early to assume that the main character will be the only one to do anything (especially since that really hasn't been all that true with this series,) sure the main character will probably land the finishing blow, but that's kind of their role as the main character.
 
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Remember when this was a simple cooking manga?
This makes me think of a problem with isekai series. They always seem to devolve to being around food no matter what they were about before, unless they were about food in which case they devolve into being all about politics.
 
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Oh if the author wanted us to hate him.. they did success. he is a bastard.
i look forward to see what the heck is with him and his "Better" half.
 
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This makes me think of a problem with isekai series. They always seem to devolve to being around food no matter what they were about before, unless they were about food in which case they devolve into being all about politics.
Tbf, food and politics, especially in more medieval times, often go hand in hand because they both relate heavily to trade and resource management. It's also just a reality of expanding on the world and the culture of it (as both, once again, relate heavily to such things,) and turbulent times make for more interesting story development than nothing ever being wrong, and, inversely, it makes for a more interesting world when there is at least little bits of good spread throughout than if everything was always serious and bad (and food is just an easy way to inject that without disrupting the plot, especially with how big on food people in Japan, and some other Asian countries, tend to be.) Since foodie culture isn't as big in most Western countries (it can be big, just not as big as it is in places like Japan,) it makes sense that there might be a bit of a disconnect there.
 
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I know Jean probably won't die, but I'm starting to get a little annoyed at the characters always being under constant peril. Yes I'm well aware it's to build drama and drive the plot forward while making the action feel more tense, but as someone who started reading this under the assumption I was getting a nice fantasy cooking manga with maybe some action here and there (there is a lack of tragedy or drama tags so can you blame me?), I'm about fully clocked out of caring.

The worst part is knowing how likely it is that Jean being poisoned will turn into something dragged out for ~10-20 chapters in a "will she die, or won't she?" kind of way the whole time whilst some other problem is tying every other character's hands until just the last moment when MC or someone connected to him swoops in and saves her. I think I'll chuck this manga in either my Plan To Read or Dropped list for me to revisit later to see if it's gotten back to a style more like the early chapters. We got a glimpse of that with the Princess and Tia cooking chapters, so it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility for the author to reign things in yeah I know I'm coping.
 

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