if MC didn't have more daddy issues than the National Geographic magazine's back catalog.
Also, if only the main female character MC "chooses" was even half way clever or useful. All she does is fail until MC literally coaches her to succeed. I was expecting some kind of self sufficiency from her as the story unfolds but nope.
A pathetic woman who can't do anything without a man to hold her hand and validate her existence. 🙄😒 Maybe that's why MC likes her; she's what romance genre readers call Too Stupid to Live. She's only alive because MC feels good and masculine around her, like a proper man's man who can provide and keep his woman safe.
The story starts out from her helpless, naive and clueless POV, too. I almost dropped this a couple of times because of that in ch 2.
I simply skip past her nonsense whenever MC isn't there now. This hasn't affected the story flow in the slightest for me...which tells me her existence is not needed in this story and she's why it's dragging.
In ch. 22
MC actually has the audacity to say this nonsense about why he likes this girl: "Because in this world, being kind and upright has become outdated and frustrating."
No. Ew.
That girl is not kind or upright. She's foolish and gullible. Her shock and hesitation over killing people who were about to RAPE AND MURDER her, and others around her, would have gotten not just her VERY dead but those others, too.
Again, if MC wasn't there to metaphorically bitch-slap reality into her by efficiently killing the bad guys she, and the others, would be goners.
Ugh. If she was at least competent at something (anything really, I'm not picky at this point) I wouldn't be bitching and whining so much about this story.
She's ruined what would've been a perfectly good, perfectly satisfying slop of a "turn your brain off and enjoy the ride" kind of story.
EDIT: HOLY SHIT. MC's mom is the real deal. Why can't we get her story?!?
The second MC's parents show up this became their story anyway.
Too bad MC's daddy is the male version of the female character I'm bitching about. Great. As if one of these annoying characters existing in the same story isn't enough. MC's dad doesn't deserve his mom.
Wait. Despite hating his daddy, MC's essentially got a crush on his own dad. Wow. -_-
EDIT: Dropped at ch. 41. I wish MC's mom showed up more often.