Bike's manga / #on-hold(42)

Chapter 36 --- Loving it. So it's one of those "ranker" stories with game mechanics not unlike S Classes and ORV, except this one has actual BL, apparently? From what I'm getting, I'm assuming the BL will be on the backburner, but I'm not complaining---premise is interesting. Dude lives a chill life, having effectively disappeared from the public eye following his party's defeat of a dungeon that had threatened to destroy the world. He spends day-to-day life imposing mundane barrier spells, hanging out with those in his small guild, fulfilling the wishes of those who had died, doing numerous small hobbies, etc. While haunted by the past, he's determined to live a normal life. Unfortunately, lots of people want to know the Korean guy who managed to survive the event. One of these groups are pretty influential, and he ends up getting caught into their schemes. --- Read chapter 15. MC's backstory is compelling. The dungeon game mechanics seem interested (especially the aspect about Gaia?). I'm also intrigued by the emphasis on the "stat viewing inbox" thing. It's only accessible by those with skills---you can cloak your stats and they'll seem innocuous so long as the person looking at them doesn't have a high level "skill viewer" ability. The chemistry of the main pair is also interesting to me. They've hardly interacted at this point, but I can see the potential. Also, I love me a MC that wants nothing more than to retire after having lived life as a hero. Love this trope.

Ch. 45 It's lowkey giving sports shonen, but it's legitimately BL? Nice. But seriously, I honestly didn't expect to get into this as much as I did LMAO But basically: boys be playing baseball. You got captain MC here hooking in ML former middle school baseball prodigy into playing again because MC doesn't smell (he actually smell quite divine, for some reason). Ends up with a situation wherein the ML gets MC smelling rights x3 a week. Commence sexual tension in-between some serious drama, because, damn, MC's getting wrung in the gutter for whatever reason. But they're shaping up to be something quite sweet, actually. ML's the only one who actually tells him to put his foot down (MC's sweet but kind of a pushover) and is willing to advocate for him when nobody else will (antisocial "everyone except MC smells" ass don't gaf). Sort of a knight in shining armor, it's cute. Awaiting more chapters. --- Also I got flashbanged CH.41, giving "Mission: Save The Hunter" energy damn