OThe name they gave him was "little hero" so that's probably why he died young...O autor-san tem coragem de matar o MC?
It's what we have to find out.Does author-san have the guts to kill the MC?
Well their cruelty seems more to be from the acknowledgement that he can't do anything. Even with his magic. He has delays he probably can't overcome yet. Complicated things are more difficult then normal. So they lost will to him.I like that his family's cruelty is not over the top, but born out of not caring about him. It stings more than standard evil family scenes from this sort of story, because it feels more real.
Curious to see if they ever show up again... Some punishment for them would be nice as a reader, but I kind of feel like they wouldn't give a second thought to him vanishing or news of his pending death.
A very solid start!