The main reason I dropped this is because of the way the author portrays slavery. It's kind of a negative isekai genre trope to take the "when in Rome do as the Romans" approach to slavery, and this is definitely one of the manga that is written like that.
It has the classic school class gets isekai'd, mc hates everyone in his class but one girl, mc gets discarded and almost murdered by royalty because of his "bad class", mc's class is actually really good in a way that barely relates to its description, mc swears revenge type setup. We've all seen it before, nothing new.
I'm not above reading straight up garbage to give me a hit of what my autism wants, I can stomach repetitive setups like I was built for it. The mc gets incredibly op immediately, as they do, and ends up in his first town, where he promptly enters a general store looking to buy rice, since his OP class happens to be cook. He finds that the girl showing him around the store is a slave, but it's fine since shes like all cheerful and well treated. Then the store owner of the general store shows up and takes him to the slavery section where this general store keeps their slaves. You know, cause you may wanna pick up a slave when shopping for groceries.
So the slaves are actually fine though, they have rights, at least the store Klerk says so, whatever that means, and they're cheerful so the fact that they are owned and sold at fantasy Walmart is no problem at all. He then gets taken to the criminal slave room of the fantasy Walmart, where the slaves who have no rights are kept. They don't get fed well, they aren't cheery and really fuck up the "buying dinner with my kids" vibe, so they get their seperate room. Here the mc ends up buying a girl who was very clearly from first appearance falsely convicted and made a slave. The mc buys her, because to him the solution to seeing an innocent girl turned into a possession is paying the guy selling her a lot of money. He and the store Owner later start a business selling his food together, they become tentative friends.
I'll skip around a bit, the local Lord asks him to solve the murder of his son, for which the girl slave the mc bought was falsely convicted. The Lord doesn't believe she did it, but like, not enough to say that to the fantasy legal system, he only made sure she became a slave instead of being killed. Charming.
The mc solves the murder by summoning a monster that does all the investigation offscreen, and then presents the "results of his investigation" by summoning the ghost of the murdered child and some others who cannot lie, to say who did it. Master detective, clearly, why did we have 5 chapters investigating in the first place? Who knows, the author probably doesn't.
Once the girl slave is set free, she asks to come with the mc, he says eeeh, she says shell become a slave again if that'll change his mind. Also they get joined by a former manipulated maid turned slave. She was threatened into trying to poison the mc, who is immune to poison, so of course for her crime of being made to almost maybe not really kill the mc she gets made into a slave, and everyone goes yeah that's reasonable.
Just unbearable, not even a tiny bit of criticism for the system of slavery, not any. If you dont wanna write about how slavery is bad, you don't have to, but if you put it in your story as a major driving force for your characters, is it too much to ask to get like a "this whole system of owning human beings seems kinda fucked up and wrong" out of the main character??? Who reads this.
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