Respectfully, the manager was being a dickhead while the daughter was bothering the MC.
You are talking about a man whose hobby was cracking an impossible game. I don't think women are at the forefront.
He also has better fish to catch; he turned the cat girl down because he isn't ready for that kind of commitment, especially after the death of a friend. The sparks were there; the grass was just still wet from rain.
He is most likely to hook up with the Cat red one later after the grass dries again and he puts his guard down around her.

The dampening of MC's sex drive is evident; it's just taken a back seat to getting stronger.
He obviously blushed and thought of the cat as more than a friend, but that was killed after he remembered that she said she wasn't into beefcakes. A misunderstanding, several in fact.

He doesn't need another fucking lady in his life. He already has 3 excellent catches; he does not need the shitty little mino with baggage and nothing in common with him.

The fool grabbed a book.
In seriousness, this is a horrific trap. The illusion can only be dropped by finding a flaw in cognitohazards, assuming that it can be dropped in the first place and assuming that he is right.
A cognitohazard is any piece of information, written or otherwise, that actively damages the body and/or mind when viewed or processed.
In simpler terms, he needs to shove his hand into a wood chipper and then find a chip is in one of the blades if there even is one; otherwise, he is just wasting his time and resources.

It's been 1 year, 7 months, and 15 days since this dropped.

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Dono what the dude below me is smokin'; this isn't that bad. 5/10
Read through the whole thing. Pretty realistic take on doctoral work as it goes over symptoms, treatment methods, and reasons.
Basically "Reincarnated as a Legendary Surgeon" if the writers were Japanese and set it in high fantasy and without the military and history stuff, basically more focused on medical work.

The "cat girl slave" is sticking around him to learn to heal without magic. It doesn't feel forced or even romantic.
The MC is this little ball of kindness whose only goal is to heal what he can get his hands on; he isn't gatekeeping medical info on the what or why—he just answers and is actively spreading information.

The problem is that it feels disconnected. The whole thing just speeds through the story. I would love more context on WHY the dwarves abandoned the old settlement, but that never comes.
It feels rushed and never gives proper context to the world or its people. It's speeding on past all its seance, and its tempo is too high for a slice of life, like maybe 50% too fast (if that makes sense).

This needed more time in the oven and needed to be fleshed out more. It feels like there is a crust over the actual story, like some rusted blade.
It feels like it was thought out but never elaborated or established. And that makes me sad; I see its potential, but it was handled poorly.

Not the feel I got from this.
This felt like an apology for something she couldn't help or that was out of her control for someone after they left.
Like putting a letter on top of the fridge saying sorry after leaving but not why it feels remorseful on the writer's side.
This was hidden; they didn't leave on bad terms; and it was a thank you note.
This second engagement has the cracks of a forced one.
She also stayed with the lad for quite a while despite the lack of progress on his behavior.
Meaning that she liked him—liked him enough to seriously consider husbanding him.
From such a stagnant relationship, you would expect resentment and avoidance.

Also, considering the writer's texts, it would be weird if they were colluding.

Yeah, we got more context after this (the interior of the barrier box).
But it hasn't been ruled out. Because, well, you could use the toddler's soul.
We already have evidence of things that the soul can affect the body, as overusing magic shortens life spans.
We have a monster that condenses human souls into magical gems, with that same monster stealing the guise of the last victim.
What I'm saying is not that the corpse of the child would be stuffed into a box.

I'm saying that the soul of a child would be siphoned off into a vessel to power a grand barrier box.

Logic is as such. Normal people have little to no mana, yet the wraiths (I forget the actual name of the soul condensers) still produce decent-sized soul gems from what is essentially a few souls cobbled together but are incapable of barrier overlap.

Now what would happen if someone with a lot of condensed mana that they have the potential to use was "fed" to one of these monsters?

My theory is that it would make a soul gem capable of barrier overlap.

It's very possible that the 3 gems within the grand barrier box are from people capable of managing mana.

Think on it.

That would be Muscle Joseon, no?

It's been quiet enough for long enough that I now suspect that season 3 of OPM is being tinkered with again.
Either that or a well-deserved break.

You can't make good wine in a day.

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Have you kept tabs on his stance on things and how this flows? This reads like you haven't.
Like, for example, OL MC here is under the incorrect belief that his now wife was unwilling due to his first few impressions of her being an untameable force. He is under the belief that he has ensnared this difficult one into marriage against her will and has now caged her. For her, though, it was a defense mechanism to keep others away from her; the MC has melted that wall and stolen her heart unknowingly.

To an outsider's perspective, the only odd thing he has is an evil smile and horrific personal battle ability along with zero tolerance for corruption. To his assistant android, he is impulsive and decisive as well. The MC's greed knows no bounds, and greed is good; therefore, the MC's good knows no bounds.

Also note that he is not a sexist asshole. He could abuse his power and force himself on others, but he doesn't; he left that behind. All he took with him to this new world was a toned-down and silent sadism.

He hasn't grown, but he isn't as you say.

Literally just AdGuard. works on YouTube as well.

For the rest of the setup, Vivaldi (Brave works fine as well) and Privacy Badger (kills trackers better than AdGuard).
It may not work 2-6 times; that is just to get it acclimatized to your system. It also bugs out some websites, as it stops most ad redirects from shady websites, so it could take a few clicks to actually get what you want.

This has horrifying implications for the large barrier box. And the desire to take Lia dead or alive supports this.

Not sure about using weed as an anesthetic. But it's good so far. 8.5/10

It's good. The writing isn't great. But it has something I find difficult to parse from that makes it good.
The MC has an actual reason to have not been noted aside from being an xS rank.
He has no self-awareness, is dense as fuck, and has shit social skills. But the narrative is aware of that and pokes fun at it.
He has skills for crafting a very unusual type of artifact class and finds joy in his work.
He uses skills in ways they were never intended but is very effective.
The MC is a high-functioning autistic, leaning more towards energetic than stoic.
After a rough first few chapters, it evens out at 5-7, delivering some good, mildly interesting reading.

8.5/10

If I had a coin for every time a hero party kicked out their spinal member, I'd have 3 coins, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times.

Edit: This kind of sucks.

Well, the author makes it seem like it's common, despite the fact that we've seen like 7 guys total. What would have been better is if the people saw them as unreliable or incapable.
As everyone is being fuckin' murdered by monsters, the people that should be there to protect them are the military, which are now all dead or dying.
So yes, in every way this is a plot device to make people not trust the military.

You don't need to break the body to break the spirit.

If you're wondering why a charge of the ring burned out, it's because Draco got fed Leto's blessing/memory-removing worm thing. Basically ensuring that the scaly bastard won't go looking for him.

Looks like someone rolled 4 consecutive 0s on transporting some merchandise.