I mean, "Sweetie, sweetie, sweetie" is somehow worse than your generic isekai title, I don't think that word is used even once in the story? It doesn't even have any fantasy/isekai flavor whatsoever, how am I even supposed to know what kind of story I'm picking up??? Might as well call it "read the tags and description you lazy mfs"
Argh, why am I mad at a perfectly good story for such a dumb reason??? ...well, I'm glad I found it tbh. And that it's probably ending soon-ish (right? I hope there isn't some temple arc after this).
Actually it was used once but that's , "Once", and the main leads themselves didn't like the idea of calling the other sweetie but maybe it'll change near the ending since they tried that sweetie nickname in the earlier chapters where they still felt a little awkward with each other, so maybe they'll be more comfortable with the nickname now
noooo the tags don't have horror! Don't tell me half-demon boy is going to just turn out to be some misunderstood badboy!
Still...what's with his personality switch pre-post evil book? He lost a lot of his silliness (probably to suit the tone shift in the story), but I don't see why he was all about retiring peacefully at the start when he was clearly working towards something bigger. Was it that he already took his revenge on the OG betrayers and had no clues about the book so chose to give up or something? Doesn't really match with how tenacious he is after the book reveal, did author just find a cool resolution to the story they wanted to tell?
I'm not complaining tbh. The author does a good job of making him competent and slowly driving up the threat scale. It never feels like he's unbeatable to me. Embarrassingly, I didn't pick up on the "third rate villain" thing being part of MC's skill/curse condition until he literally spelled it out for me. Maybe once this ends, I'll read a wiki or something to figure out what the actual overall timeline was like.
...well, it honestly doesn't have much in the way of romance or pervy moments as of chap 28 at least. At most it has a little too much male gaze centric art, but otherwise it's more like an action manhwa with a few romcom-esque scenes?
MC goes from powerless to OP in the very first chapter, so that steals away some of the tension. Also feels like MC doesn't have all that much of a personality besides 'hypercompetent/overprepared'. Also steals a bit of thunder from the girls due to him being too OP. I really hope they stop making the other charas irrelevant tbh - it'd be a lot more fun if he was more like a weakling most of the time who was the main stratergist for his OP friends or similar - or at least if he didn't outclass them in every way every single time.
I'm still interested in seeing what all the girls turn out like tho. OGProtag seems like she's pretty motivated and fun despite her baggage. OGBoss is your standard kuudere, but she also has her awkward charm. The chancellor is a bit of a creep, especially if she's hitting on one of her students - but I'm chalking that up to this being a harem for now.
> King asks MC to marry an 8 year old
me: wtf, does he want to kill her love life? And scar a child while he's at it?
> King: see, the evil duke who's manipulating said 8 year old wants to get me to betrothe his 12 year old daughter to the kid
me: And you can't just say no? wtf, aren't you a king?
> King: so the only solution is to marry this 8 year old to my 20 year old knight.
me: Or, you could take him under your protection. Or give him a retainer. Or just outlaw child marriage. Take your pick.
> King: He's also loaded so you'll finally have enough money to pay your debts!
me: Or, you could pay her. For fighting in your war. Like a decent employer/ruler. You stingy mf.
> MC: Wow, duke bad! daughter mean! Little boy adorb - must protecc!! I know, I'll marry him!
me: Why??? Can't you just, idk, adopt him or something?
> MC: okie, I spent a few weeks with the child and married him, I'm going to ice myself for a 10 year time skip
me: ...What? So what was all that about protecting him or whatever, you just disappear while the main baddie has full access to the 8 year old? Why even have this premise if you're too much of a coward to explore its implications author-nim?
> MC: Oh how convenient! My 8 year old husband is a very convenient 18! And everyone else is the same age(and position) as pre-timeskip!
me: how nice that you're technically not committing a crime. And how nice that the passage of time affects no one but the child characters.
> MC: Oh? Why is my former child husband so unruly? I didn't raise him like this!
me: You didn't raise him at all - you just f-d off into hyperspace a few weeks after meeting (and marrying) him! Your subordinate who trained him raised him more than you! The evil duke was in his life longer than you! Hell, even his dad who he last saw when he was 3 raised him more than you!
> former child groom: the lady who I saw for a few weeks when I was 8 (and subsequently married) is back! And I love her romantically for some reason!
me: child, how do you even remember someone you met at 8 for a few days? I don't even remember my teachers anymore! What magical memory do you possess???
Thank you for your summary, I didn't go past chapter 3. It's more than enough, not appealing at all.
ooo, nice touch where doing the deed once isn't an instant pregnancy (at least not all the time). haha, there's plenty of melodrama and insanity even without a hidden baby. No clue what happened to the old fiance, did he die or something?
Did ML ask the prince at some point to break up MC's supposed engagement/marriage to her 'childhood friend'? I'm not certain what else it could be...
...uh, I hope I'm wrong about that because the implications...
Nah, I am very sure ML wanted a same sex marriage to be allowed since he thought Lobel was a boy? ╮(￣▽￣)╭
You’re right!
That was my thought too!
Lmaoo.. he's thinking that far already so his goal really to make robel his wife
I thought that at first, but I think ML found out before the timeskip - there's that chap where he stalks her back to her hometown after getting the background check from his dad, and he talks as though he knows her gender.
...but if it was a request for same sex marriage...that's still pretty bad cuz it'd be like 'lol, idc about that since it no longer affects me personally'. ...yikes.
...Based on the cover page, I was expecting tentacles.
...I got _plot_ (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Sorry, meant to like
It’s two snakes
I count 4 heads. And it might be more. It looks like they are all connected to each other like a Hydra
Those are snakes But they can serve as tentacles, but that would be a horror LMAO
I don't think I've read anything as unserious as this that doesn't crash straight into cringe territory. Don't judge it by the first chapter - it's the little girl who has the crush, and MC doesn't really seem to actually have a romantic arc at all.
True, most of the single female characters who are not MC's disciples have something of a crush on MC and MC has his little fantasies about them, but the story doesn't really focus on any sort of romcom shenanigans. The story is mainly about MC and his disciples being OP and cool. There's very little stakes to the whole thing, it's just a silly comedy.
ah... I should call my grandpa soon...