he stopped recognizing that actions have consequences and seemed to be capable to looking at himself objectively. That just makes him as bad as his tormentors from the first round, which is not satisfying at all. I really loved the slave market arc because he seemed at the time to realize he was pulling some heinous shit but it was justified because ends>means. But now? Him murdering the princess' lover in total secrecy and feeling good about it to then question his terrible reputation and character scores was like, you were not his stupid the entire time, right? What kind of Olympic gold medalist in mental gymnastics fuckery are you doing to think that tearing a woman from her lover to force her to marry someone she doesn't want to is NOT going to completely fuck you over in the character department?
And wait, was he somehow NOT aware that everyone was scared to death of him, moreso than the Demon King, which would FUCKING OBVIOUSLY MAKE YOUR REPUTATION AS A HERO MOOT BECAUSE YOU ARE NOW CONSIDERED WORSE THAN THE EVIL YOU'RE VANQUISHING? You don't realize that people are scared of you because you clearly unecessarily murdered the knight captain during training then proceeded to go off and murder a powerful foreign king with what to them would sound like a really flimsy excuse considering you've been established as someone who instantly kills anyone not on your side? How the fuck is he attributing that to people randomly blaming him for the time he got half a continent killed, which, by the way, IS SOMETHING THAT EVEN IF NO ONE IN THE WORLD KNEW YOU DID THE PROCTORS OF THE TEST KNOW SO OBVIOUSLY YOU WOULD LOSE CHARACTER POINTS FOR GETTING PRESUMABLY THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT BYSTANDERS KILLED?
I love the new hero idea, I just wish the mc's brain didn't have to get scooped out his nose for these developments to happen. I'm done for now, maybe I'll pop in in a couple months to check in. It went from a "haha watch the main character being a piece of shit" to "wow there isn't even a good excuse to get behind this moron anymore I hope the new hero murders his ass"