Ohh I thought "fiends" referred to players who abused their player powers to prey on other humans. So is there a separate term for those who prey on other humans but haven't drunk demon blood?

Are you assigned seats? Otherwise what if a regular viewer was already in the seat.

What if people were sitting in the theater seat used for teleporting to watch the movie.

Why would you want to keep your better merchandise a secret. Doesn't seem like a very good sales pitch. For that matter why require special invitation to visit the black market? Is it a black-market because stuff fiends got off players they killed and stuff? Worried police would come?

In your description of how it goes in the novel, you make it sound like MC used the orb on the patient talking about grinding it into powder.

So you think the novel is much better? I got a link for me please?

MC with such a warm heart waits till many people are possibly dead before attacking. MC did say "survivors" which implies dead.

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There are many definitions to fastidious . I suppose careful attention to detail is how this version makes the boss extra dangerous? Or maybe a translation error?

"it could be paying him off or any number of things not involving murder "
I did briefly think of that but this narrowed the possibilities down considerably-

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I suppose some memory erasing magic could still be possible but I feel that would have been said if that is what it is.

Not directly for the most part. Taking the darkness divinity caused alot of deaths, but most of those were not meant/desired, rather just figured as a cost of improving the world, a cost he didn't figure would be quite so high.

Tell me of a time he went around like a serial killer or addicted other worlder just killing innocent people for the hell of it or whatever.

He's been well meaning from the start, just a idiot.

I thought we were talking about "risk of "discovery" " not confession of everything MC knows.

There is a vast middle ground between explaining possessions different worlds etc. and allegedly "having to act like Ash". Say MC doesn't explain anything about how things are and just acts like emself. Doesn't spend a moment considering "What would Ash do", just behaves how MC wants and thinks is best.. There is no advantage to be had against Ash for suddenly acting with a different character other than the random somewhat inept asshole the original Ash seems to have been. I do recall mentioning this earlier in the conversation about this middle ground and never saying that MC should try to explain other worlds or anything.

"Ash's personality has changed for the better, this (somehow) is the perfect chance to remove em"

I don't see it.

The story should/could be about a person learning to be human. Character growth. Helmut was even essentially told to learn to be human. What was the point of the whole school arc if MC just remains a cold emotionless (except for random inappropriate nonsensical anger that reveals secret meant to be hidden) robot barely caring about anyone?

You are right, Helmut regularly gives reasons other than doing the right thing for doing the right thing. But if you've read enough asian stories you're use to that (I think especially common in Japanese stories) A percentage of them with a MC who's always giving other reasons for helping people other than to help them or reasons to not kill other than valuing life. 'I will save your village because you can make me lots of a food I like' etc. Basically acting tsundere=ish. I'm not saying that exactly maps onto Helmut, but it can be that Helmut learns to be more human while dealing with restrictions caused by the dark seed and so on. That stated reasons aren't the only reasons, maybe even MC can't admit it to even emself.-is a way this could be played as.

I didn't say anything about quality or defect. But I would find it a more enjoyable higher quality (in my opinion of course, since "quality" is also a bit subjective) If MC had proper character growth like say Salvos of the comic of the same name. Helmut has a darkness seed, Salvos is a demon with deep inherent desire to kill and level. But only the latter can learn to overcome this and grow as a person? Seems a waste. And without that, I will not enjoy the story enough to read to the end.

Also in contrast it seems absurd that Helmut has some emotional connection to the other disciple of the master just because they shared the same master, even before meeting em.

When/how did MC get this phantom horse? Just one of those continuous gifts given by the system?

I prefer understanding the premises and ideas of my fiction, you are different, sis?

Let em be if what? How can they "catch" something they'd never believe in a million years thus never look for in the first place?

Also it's based in a specific video game. Not just resembling a video game, still pretty video gamey even now. Video game premise is tower defense or something like that, not RPG etc.

NPC in the game recognizing someone as a "player" is like NPC recognizing they are in a game, how is that suppose to work/happen if MC never told them or even if MC told them?

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None of this makes sense. Flames aren't made of light and light can travel super far.

That's just a name, and not letting said seed control MC is a big plot point even. You might as well said "MC can't help but be evil"

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"I'm going to murder a innocent blacksmith"

"OK"

Nearly the same as killing Kevin emsef. It's really hard to enjoy a story with a evil MC like that.

Already basically told em by the overreaction to the information from the Blacksmith. Not sure about passing it off as theft.

Why would es be back?

With all that waling around she does after having broken her ankle a day or two before, it clearly did not matter at all whether she got treated right away or not.