Why are you guys blaming the MC?

personally i believe the mc handled the situation at the arena very poorly

the mc could've gotten rid of the obvious threat that was making things complicated
and at the point of the opponent losing his will to fight
to the point of them both dying
im not expecting goku or a really smart mc because we get more story that way
but i have to scratch my head at this when he helps people throughout the series ╮(￣▽￣)╭

Ok. So how do you think could he have handled it better?

First, the lady was a pretty skilled martial artist. His poison needles will not work. He can't work together with the swordsman because he was looking down at him and didn't really know MC was stronger.

I would argue that it was the swordsman's fault. He was way closer to the girl and the woman and could have easily tried to do something. The MC probably would have helped him out as well by distracting the lady.

But then again, the swordsman complied and dueled the MC regardless confidently thinking he would be able to kill the MC.

I don't think he had any other options.

i don't believe the woman was that strong
he knocked her sonic rings out before anything popped off and that would've been the prime time to take her out before things got complicated (even if he had to kill the leader anyway, the MC was still blatantly stronger)
this was supposed to be part of a plan which went out of his control
a part of also knows the mc didn't care about the enemy
if he came for smoke there's no way you could've talked this out

if you think she wasn't that strong then the swordmaster could have taken care of it himself. He didn't do his job properly and chose to follow what ever the lady wanted and fight the MC.

obviously he wouldn't care much about the enemy. they're the ones who almost wiped out his clan. you are seriously deluded if you think he should meddle with the enemies's infighting.

the swordmaster didn't want the daughter harmed in any way but the mc didnt care so if she got burned a little or lost limbs would have been a better option than the result
did you forget that this is a mission
the mc wasn't messing around in enemy territory for fun or training
the mission only ends with dealing with unaccounted variables so there was no point to asking the mc for the favor anyway
the mc stopped the burning for no reason when she was pretty much dead and why does he care that the dragon take care of the subordinate if he didn't give a hoot about infighting
i don't get why you are defending him when he is an hypocrite and an asshole

I am defending the MC because you guys are unreasonable. I have no idea why you guys are super butthurt about that girl dying when she was introduced mainly as a tool for the dragon to fully become evil. They were just there for a couple of panels and clearly just a means for the evil lady to prompt everyone to kill the MC.

You guys want the MC to be omniscient and I don't agree with that. He isn't meant to be the super generic all righteous shounen character either.

I am giving up replying since everyone saying he is a hypocrite and an asshole clearly are reading too much into it that they making stuff up to form their opinion. You guys might as well just drop the series and make your own where the MC can predict everything and make reality bend to their own righteous will.

there is nothing wrong with the main character being a asshole
it make for a longer story that makes more sense than a perfect character getting nerfed
readers are not going glaze him while this bull is happening but we will get over it and keep reading
it happens all the time relax （￣へ￣）

nah. I'm chill. you guys getting mad over the girl dying need to chill though.

gurl bye.

aren't you the one that's mad because the comments rubbed you the wrong way

aren't you the one that's mad because you didn't really comprehend the story properly?

why would i be mad this story is basic compared other mirum stories
i get that you've been trying to taunt me out of responding and I've said my piece
so unlike you i can actually leave this chat ╮(￣▽￣)╭

not taunting anyone. chill babe. you don't have to have the final word in everything. bye bye!

MC underestimated the danger to the little girl but people are mad he was using the fact that she was being held hostage to his advantage- his goal was to weaken the group it'self- and that lead to her death. They exspect him as the "hero" to have a moral obligation to protect the weak or at least show actual remorse when they fail to do so. The kid could have lived if he truly wanted to save her- that's a fact. But he did not so he did not pass the hero test.

it would be like watching a kid get hit by a car when you could have stopped it with the reasoning of "the parents shouldn't have let the kid be there"

doesn't change the fact that someone who had the power to intervene chose not to and that is why people are mad.