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I'm not gonna front this is the first isekai that i've read with an inadvertently good story but a bad plot if that makes sense. Usually there devoid of creative ingenuity and op characters - but this narrative has a unique problem.
The "Story" of two opposing factions of morally grey repute and the third party that gets caught in the middle for just existing is actually very good. Not making it about the OP character and more using them as a "creative element" for the larger narrative of the world that already existed prior to their introduction is actually kinda genius.
The "plot" of making the Church seem like the good guys (up to the point i've read so far) and the Kingdom as bad guys for doing a bad thing and trying to gain more power for uncertain reasons other than "we want more power" is such lazy writing that I actively stopped reading this for a while from the third chapter just to forget about it and return with a fresh pair of eyes weeks later.
I hope the narrative pans out in such a way where it takes into account the world they're in, the complex nature of militarization, zealotry in the name of religion, and the irony of moral highgrounds - but in all likelihood, this will pan out to be just a focused narrative of the Executioner dealing with her own internal morality and the "tragic" path of our co-main in a different world.
Anyway that's my two cents on this.
The "Story" of two opposing factions of morally grey repute and the third party that gets caught in the middle for just existing is actually very good. Not making it about the OP character and more using them as a "creative element" for the larger narrative of the world that already existed prior to their introduction is actually kinda genius.
The "plot" of making the Church seem like the good guys (up to the point i've read so far) and the Kingdom as bad guys for doing a bad thing and trying to gain more power for uncertain reasons other than "we want more power" is such lazy writing that I actively stopped reading this for a while from the third chapter just to forget about it and return with a fresh pair of eyes weeks later.
I hope the narrative pans out in such a way where it takes into account the world they're in, the complex nature of militarization, zealotry in the name of religion, and the irony of moral highgrounds - but in all likelihood, this will pan out to be just a focused narrative of the Executioner dealing with her own internal morality and the "tragic" path of our co-main in a different world.
Anyway that's my two cents on this.
