Was annoyed at this chapter. The goddess is playing the demons by throwing the oviobiously confused MC in battle and making the demons an enemy of the dimis as well as the humans. Because they are going with attack first ask questions later approach. So stupid, if the guy cant speak the common tongue a gift of the goddess then why would you assume he is on their side?
I was excited cause I thought we'd FINALLY get an MC-centric chapter. Nope. The SECOND the perspective shifted, the pacing crashed. I don't CARE about these characters. 1. We haven't seen enough of them TO care. 2. What we have seen shows they're not interesting enough to merit more time. 3. Their part in this conflict is superfluous to the MC and because HE is who we follow, superfluous to us. This isn't world building. This is an author refusing to kill his darlings. he could have EASILY condensed this mess to a single chapter, outlining how this conflict went. We don't NEED to be along for the ride. This series doesn't come out NEARLY often enough for the pacing to be throttled like this.
@Foreverkidd <.< can't believe you just said that. First the SAO stuff. In Aincrad, before Yui was his little waifu pet, she was a helper AI made by the system. She was supposed to help him with things and then get scrubbed after. However she got intelligent and Kirito didn't want her to go, so right before she got scrubbed he reprogrammed the game(that's called hacking) using the admin terminal so that she wouldn't get scrubbed. Maybe you're the one that needs to go reassess things.
Now as for Makoto, it's obvious that the story is trying to make us the readers feel a sense of tension and distress for the MC. Otherwise they wouldn't have done the reveal of him missing his fingers in such a dramatic way, they also wouldn't spend time on this fight and would just have him win. There is also them highlighting the 'threat' of if this person is stronger than Tomoe or Mio, so he can't just portal away. That is clearly them trying to say "The MC has to fight this tough opponent that they can't just run away from." It's blatantly obvious that's that they're trying to convey. The problem is that this isn't actually a threat and that's why it's annoying.
@SweatyBrie I don't care how inexperienced he is or how young he is. If someone is attacking you and has already chopped of some of your fingers, standing there having an internal dialogue with yourself is the last thing you should be doing. Do I even need to say this? It seems like common sense to attempt to neutralize the threat and/or flee if you have the ability to. But apparently not, MC has to stand there like the dumbass he is and make stupid faces.
shittiest chapter! MC being like dumb and not thinking fast. If he lost his fingers does that mean he unleashed his protected power and the opponent sees 50 demon lord all at once? Why they giving more concerns to the other party instead of the MC scenes?
next chapter when they try to debuff the MC by dispelling the goddess' blessing and get surprised when he gets enraged and more powerful
if anything the MC is just confident in his defense and trying to figure out what's going on; he doesn't want to fight because he's already assumed the goddess wants him to fight these people, he tries to actually explain this shortly in the WN but they don't buy it and then try attack again
this also leads the MC to be way more merciless later for the same reason