God damn it I had written a very long post for this and I accidentally pressed the back button and lost everything I wrote now I have to start all over again AAAAAAAAAAAA. Anyway, here's my take on the story.
The story is so well-written, that the conflict is real. Conflict as in, which side to choose because there are truly no villains in this story, only victims. Victims of selfishness, negligence and heartlessness shown by humans. Ironically, humans are no longer humane and do not display humanity. Either way, should you choose one side, you will definitely feel terrible for the other side. All of them can be sympathized and empathized with. Yes, I've used both words, and they can be used despite the different meanings. In a way, humans are their own enemy. I'll call the broken heroes antagonists because they did save the worlds at one point.
The starting is different. The antagonist side is shown first and then gave birth to the protagonist (don't take that quite literally). I thought the sword hero was going to ditch the home world and go back to the other world. But turns out he decided to go full bad and show this world pain and misery.
There are 11 heroes in total: 10 antagonists and 1 protagonist. The map shows the territories of nine heroes except Seoul taken by the sword hero. So far till chapter 6, there are 4 heroes who made their appearances and 1 antagonist (golem hero) died. 9 antagonists are remaining.
From here starts the speculating and theorizing.
1. Why is the home world rejecting the heroes? It was after if it was conveying, "You left me for the other world to "save" it. How dare you come back? I'll make you wish you never set foot here." The pain is carefully chosen for each hero in different ways.
- The sword hero lost his parents and tried to live with their blood relatives. However, the blood relatives blamed him for his parents' deaths as well as their financial crisis. I know emotions can make anybody blind, however, this is going too far. They never actually asked about his well-being, what happened to him or why he went missing. This is pretty realistic because no one cares about the other side since they prioritize their suffering over the reasons of other's actions.
- The golem hero got disowned by his father. And because of him being 19 years old, he is denied the support of teens, nor does he get paid at his part-time job. He also said to the girl, "Maybe you should have consoled us when we were suffering." Notice the pattern here, the heroes get rejected wherever they go. The misfortune is too strong. Also, none of them had anyone who truly cared for them to console them. It was as if they were made sure to have nobody by their side to become what they have become now. Had there been someone, their pain and misery would have been alleviated to some extent.
2. All the heroes defeated the demon king in other worlds. Yeah, here I mention worlds. Because it is stated in the manhwa that they all went missing in the same time period and returned as heroes. Excluding the spear hero who is the protagonist. Which means, the antagonists were missing for 8 months. It wouldn't make sense for all the heroes to save the same world 11 times, so it's most likely that they got transported to other different worlds. Or it's also possible that the other world was saved 11 times in 11 different timelines. Speaking of spear hero, did he actually save the other world or destroy it? He hated the very idea of a hero since its essence got twisted due to the events that happened so far.
3. Did the demon king(s) curse the heroes upon their return to their homes? The first point narrates the weird behaviour of the people and it's possibilities and it would make sense if there was a curse acting on it. How many demon kings were killed? Was there only one or more? This is also dependent on the second point because of the question of the worlds. Were there 11 demon kings? Or was one demon king defeated 11 times in different timelines?
4. The other worlds shown so far were three of them. The sword hero and the golem hero upon being transported to the other worlds met and interacted first and foremost with who? A priestess/healer. Excluding the spear hero who met a witch/spellcaster/mage first, the spear and golem heroes had 4 members in their party. Are these worlds actually living on the misery of earth? One eating the other? The inhabitants of these other worlds were specifically shown praying for the happiness of their heroes, yet, none of them are happy at all. None of them. Did their prayers get twisted and turned into a curse or something? Or is their definition of happiness different? Or did some third party troll whom we have not seen yet is tampering with the lives of the heroes for their own entertainment? Do they want to watch the world burn?
5. The priestesses are suspicious. However, it's only six chapters so far and it's way too soon to accuse them. Though the sword and golem heroes all had 4 party members before leaving for earth. The thing that stands out to me is them claiming that if the hero doesn't save their world, then the demon king will attack the hero's world. It was quite strange how this point is strongly emphasized.
6. The spear hero is an altogether different and special case. He lost his family before getting transported to the other world. It seems his eyes recovered back to normal vision, seeing that he doesn't wear glasses. Is he chosen as the grim reaper to put an end to the sufferings of the other heroes? The twisted part here is that after misery and suffering, there is no suffering. And no suffering sometimes means happiness. Could it be that the 9 broken heroes are underlings of the demon king and the spear hero is the true hero to stop all of this? It's very possible that the sword hero himself turned into a demon king but doesn't know it yet. There seems to be certain criteria to be met for being summoned, and it's likely that spear hero's critera are different from the other ones. Like, the other ones might have met the same criteria for SOMEONE. AND the spear hero's criteria is for another somebody. So this someone and somebody are using their respective heroes as pawns to fight each other.
7. From the perspectives of the spear and sword heroes, they died before getting transporting to the other worlds. So does that mean by being summoned in those worlds, they automatically became their inhabitants there? And due to that, earth is rejecting their existences since they technically died? I mean, the sword hero must have been mangled after getting hit by a truck and the spear hero was stabbed through the chest, so they all recovered completely and had no injuries in the other worlds. Plus, the power. Normally, a human on earth is not at all capable of holding supernatural powers, skills and abilities, yet for some reason, upon returning, the heroes still retain them. Is this also part of the reason they are rejected? It does look like the inhabitants in the other world are capable of such feats, but heroes tend to be stronger. I know this is your usual isekai trope being part of the story settings and shouldn't be looked into too deeply, but this can be considered for the theories lol. Take it with a grain of salt.
8. What we've seen so far, the heroes seem to be under 20. Mostly the age for finishing high school and/or starting college. The phase to start learning about the real world and gaining life experiences to build for a better future. Also a vulnerable age. But this, they were all summoned at that time, and were left with no skills that would feed them after returning. I doubt those other-worldly skills would help them be a normal citizen living a normal life. But since all the heroes returned to earth on same time, why didn't they form a support system for themselves? They do seem to have an agreement about territories. All of them are depressed and misery loves company. I doubt they have the will to do so in the first place as all of them are completely jaded. If only they had someone who truly cared about them.
9. How the heck did they all return to earth? Spear hero returned exactly at the time the girl was calling for help, in the form of a light. Is there some inter-dimensional space travel method that turns you into light to travel at the speed of light because of different galaxies and light is the fastest thing in the universe so they used magic to turn heroes into rays of light to return them to earth quickly? Crack theory xD
This is all my brain could process and gush out. Hope you had fun reading this.
God damn it I had written a very long post for this and I accidentally pressed the back button and lost everything I wrote now I have to start all over again AAAAAAAAAAAA. Anyway, here's my take on the story.
The story is so well-written, that the conflict is real. Conflict as in, which side to choose because there are truly no villains in this story, only victims. Victims of selfishness, negligence and heartlessness shown by humans. Ironically, humans are no longer humane and do not display humanity. Either way, should you choose one side, you will definitely feel terrible for the other side. All of them can be sympathized and empathized with. Yes, I've used both words, and they can be used despite the different meanings. In a way, humans are their own enemy. I'll call the broken heroes antagonists because they did save the worlds at one point.
The starting is different. The antagonist side is shown first and then gave birth to the protagonist (don't take that quite literally). I thought the sword hero was going to ditch the home world and go back to the other world. But turns out he decided to go full bad and show this world pain and misery.
There are 11 heroes in total: 10 antagonists and 1 protagonist. The map shows the territories of nine heroes except Seoul taken by the sword hero. So far till chapter 6, there are 4 heroes who made their appearances and 1 antagonist (golem hero) died. 9 antagonists are remaining.
From here starts the speculating and theorizing.
1. Why is the home world rejecting the heroes? It was after if it was conveying, "You left me for the other world to "save" it. How dare you come back? I'll make you wish you never set foot here." The pain is carefully chosen for each hero in different ways.
- The sword hero lost his parents and tried to live with their blood relatives. However, the blood relatives blamed him for his parents' deaths as well as their financial crisis. I know emotions can make anybody blind, however, this is going too far. They never actually asked about his well-being, what happened to him or why he went missing. This is pretty realistic because no one cares about the other side since they prioritize their suffering over the reasons of other's actions.
- The golem hero got disowned by his father. And because of him being 19 years old, he is denied the support of teens, nor does he get paid at his part-time job. He also said to the girl, "Maybe you should have consoled us when we were suffering." Notice the pattern here, the heroes get rejected wherever they go. The misfortune is too strong. Also, none of them had anyone who truly cared for them to console them. It was as if they were made sure to have nobody by their side to become what they have become now. Had there been someone, their pain and misery would have been alleviated to some extent.
2. All the heroes defeated the demon king in other worlds. Yeah, here I mention worlds. Because it is stated in the manhwa that they all went missing in the same time period and returned as heroes. Excluding the spear hero who is the protagonist. Which means, the antagonists were missing for 8 months. It wouldn't make sense for all the heroes to save the same world 11 times, so it's most likely that they got transported to other different worlds. Or it's also possible that the other world was saved 11 times in 11 different timelines. Speaking of spear hero, did he actually save the other world or destroy it? He hated the very idea of a hero since its essence got twisted due to the events that happened so far.
3. Did the demon king(s) curse the heroes upon their return to their homes? The first point narrates the weird behaviour of the people and it's possibilities and it would make sense if there was a curse acting on it. How many demon kings were killed? Was there only one or more? This is also dependent on the second point because of the question of the worlds. Were there 11 demon kings? Or was one demon king defeated 11 times in different timelines?
4. The other worlds shown so far were three of them. The sword hero and the golem hero upon being transported to the other worlds met and interacted first and foremost with who? A priestess/healer. Excluding the spear hero who met a witch/spellcaster/mage first, the spear and golem heroes had 4 members in their party. Are these worlds actually living on the misery of earth? One eating the other? The inhabitants of these other worlds were specifically shown praying for the happiness of their heroes, yet, none of them are happy at all. None of them. Did their prayers get twisted and turned into a curse or something? Or is their definition of happiness different? Or did some third party troll whom we have not seen yet is tampering with the lives of the heroes for their own entertainment? Do they want to watch the world burn?
5. The priestesses are suspicious. However, it's only six chapters so far and it's way too soon to accuse them. Though the sword and golem heroes all had 4 party members before leaving for earth. The thing that stands out to me is them claiming that if the hero doesn't save their world, then the demon king will attack the hero's world. It was quite strange how this point is strongly emphasized.
6. The spear hero is an altogether different and special case. He lost his family before getting transported to the other world. It seems his eyes recovered back to normal vision, seeing that he doesn't wear glasses. Is he chosen as the grim reaper to put an end to the sufferings of the other heroes? The twisted part here is that after misery and suffering, there is no suffering. And no suffering sometimes means happiness. Could it be that the 9 broken heroes are underlings of the demon king and the spear hero is the true hero to stop all of this? It's very possible that the sword hero himself turned into a demon king but doesn't know it yet. There seems to be certain criteria to be met for being summoned, and it's likely that spear hero's critera are different from the other ones. Like, the other ones might have met the same criteria for SOMEONE. AND the spear hero's criteria is for another somebody. So this someone and somebody are using their respective heroes as pawns to fight each other.
7. From the perspectives of the spear and sword heroes, they died before getting transporting to the other worlds. So does that mean by being summoned in those worlds, they automatically became their inhabitants there? And due to that, earth is rejecting their existences since they technically died? I mean, the sword hero must have been mangled after getting hit by a truck and the spear hero was stabbed through the chest, so they all recovered completely and had no injuries in the other worlds. Plus, the power. Normally, a human on earth is not at all capable of holding supernatural powers, skills and abilities, yet for some reason, upon returning, the heroes still retain them. Is this also part of the reason they are rejected? It does look like the inhabitants in the other world are capable of such feats, but heroes tend to be stronger. I know this is your usual isekai trope being part of the story settings and shouldn't be looked into too deeply, but this can be considered for the theories lol. Take it with a grain of salt.
8. What we've seen so far, the heroes seem to be under 20. Mostly the age for finishing high school and/or starting college. The phase to start learning about the real world and gaining life experiences to build for a better future. Also a vulnerable age. But this, they were all summoned at that time, and were left with no skills that would feed them after returning. I doubt those other-worldly skills would help them be a normal citizen living a normal life. But since all the heroes returned to earth on same time, why didn't they form a support system for themselves? They do seem to have an agreement about territories. All of them are depressed and misery loves company. I doubt they have the will to do so in the first place as all of them are completely jaded. If only they had someone who truly cared about them.
9. How the heck did they all return to earth? Spear hero returned exactly at the time the girl was calling for help, in the form of a light. Is there some inter-dimensional space travel method that turns you into light to travel at the speed of light because of different galaxies and light is the fastest thing in the universe so they used magic to turn heroes into rays of light to return them to earth quickly? Crack theory xD
This is all my brain could process and gush out. Hope you had fun reading this.