3YWLO's manga / #Reincarnation(4)

Really great. Not exactly original but done very well. The dragon power was interesting and not really overused in these types of stories ( I can only recall it in one other story with my dragon eye baby “The returners magic should be special”). The side characters have completely developed characteristics and the side relationships seem so realistic to me. Low key I am fangirling over the secret relationship between the Saint and the nun. The fact that they can’t claim their son as their own is heart breaking. And the Saint can’t just leave the church because of his divinity and ties to the goddess of light as a embodiment of her power. They can’t get married or display their love but they are devoted to each other. You can see glimpses of their relationship in the MC memories before the time leap to the past and when the Saint was killed by the main character because the Saint was being controlled by the demon sect ( with the skill hive in which you make others ingest a worm that takes control over their body and mind). The nun the Saints lover asked to be killed with him because her son ( their child ) and the man she loved is dead and then said that he was her life and her life was now gone. The loyalty and devotion was something you don’t usually see in these stories because they usually revolve around cheap relationships stemming from lust and charisma rather than the husband-wife dynamics. I know I talked about these two characters a lot but they are definitely more minor characters than anything else but it wasn’t just them. Even the minor characters had complex stories, relationships, and ambitions. Weirdly I know more about the random side character’s than about the main character. Boy is a cyclone of mystery. His sidekick, the Saint, The Demons, some random powerful twins, the merchant lady, the mage, the knight, etc. I have gotten thorough background knowledge on all of these characters that I will likely never see again but… The Information on the MC is quite little. He was a slave in his early twenties which is what he was until chapter 36. Before that he was an adventurer. His family? Why he became an adventurer? Why he became a slave? Who the women he keeps seeing in his flashbacks? His lover? How did he get powerful to begin with? How did he meet is now sidekick in his past/future life? The questions are endless. But I am sure all will be revealed with time.

Really like this one. Main character went back in time to before his aunt (guardian, only living relative, and the person most important to him) was killed and before his regression he was a super villain trying to destroy a superhero who was once his friend because he unconsciously blamed the death of his aunt on him as blaming it on himself wouldn’t give him any purpose to live. In his childhood mind he thought to himself about his friend, “Where were you when she was dying? The world could do without this kind of fake hero.” His mindset distorted as he got older to encompass any figure, hero, or otherwise that inspires false hope in the weak and desperate. After going back he saves his aunt himself which turns out was really the only reason he was evil to start with because once she is safe and happy the MC is a much more content and mentally healthy person. He also continues to save and redeem some important people. He becomes best friends with the hero after revaluating the real reasons he wanted to kill him (he finds that all along he was projecting his self hate for letting his aunt die on his friend) and he kept finding himself thinking about his friend things like, “Why are you so weak? We’re you always so weak? Why are you so sad and confused about what you should do? Why is a little brat trying to take responsibility for the world and everyone in it?” etc… and then he decided to protect the young hero instead. He also saves him from his father’s tyranny (the father was emotionally abusive and because his wife died while pregnant leaving only the baby to survive he never loved or treated his son well resulting in the hero having unhealthy thoughts such as that he is responsible for all the pain, death, and darkness in the world. The MC teaches him that the worlds choas doesn’t rest solely on his shoulders and that he is deserving of being cared about (they also move in together which has been really cute). I feel like I should mention that they as well as some of the other main character are about 13-14 years old in age. He being the MC still has a lot of his evil tendencies but is more of an anti-hero now (he still has a pretty lose regard for human life that stems from his time as a super villain and nothing (including that one him he was tortured) fazes him which is pretty disturbing to others because he is like 13 or something right now. He also threatens people a lot in a very intimidating and overwhelming way which further makes some people he associates with in the crime world feel uneasy about his true capabilities. There is times he will look at hardened criminals and they get chills from his gaze accompanied by a bad feeling of not to mess with this kid. He pretty much does what he wants. In the last ten chapter or so we find out that the hero of his past life was also taken to the past but he is confused seeing that himself and MC of this time are best friends, living together, and partners in helping people. He says he still wants to kill MC but isn’t sure of what to do yet. However, from watching his reactions to seeing both boys together it feels more like he is jealous and resentful of how the MC always tries to kill him (the older other version) but cares about and protects the younger him. The I will call him OG hero even asked the MC, “Why didn’t you kill him?” to which the MC looks at the younger sleeping hero smiles affectionately and says, “I though about it but in the end there was no reason too”. The MC then carries the younger hero to bed leaving the OG hero watching them leaving with a hardened look that just screams it’s not fair . There is also a few interactions that OG hero (hiding his face and identity for the obvious reasons) and young hero have that makes OG hero realize that this new version of him is stronger physically and most importantly mentally that even his current self in some ways. The younger hero even says after both of them talked about their lives a bit that now he knows that he is loved and cared for as he is and that he doesn’t need to prove himself to his father anymore which shakes up the OG hero because he never once has felt that way in his life. The younger hero even says that MC and his aunt is his family now instead rather than his father. It’s once again pushed in his face how good the MC has been to the younger version of him which makes him feel sad and jealous of what he could have had if things had been different (he realizes that the only thing that has changed in the past is the MC so any positive differences he sees in the world and the younger hero is because of the MC).

Re read this too many times. Really it might be a problem. The clueless prince x sneaky hero.