I've been eyeing this one for a while now since I discovered it (Volume 3 isn't out yet when I found it). With the Synopsis and sample images taken from the internet of scenes from the novel, I expected a lot from this. Unfortunately, there was no translations of it yet.. Which also result in a harsh reminder kick from reality that I can't read Japanese, or Chinese, or Korean, or Google-Machinese if you get what I mean..

But now, ladies and gentleman! A GRACIOUS TRANSLATOR HAS TAKEN IT AS! Unfortunately, he/she/it/etc.. Has responsibilities for another novels too, so it seems like their attention can't be focused on this one. BUT ENOUGH OF THAT! You are here for a Review, to give you that one final push to start reading, don'tcha?

a reincarnated boy who has no qualms about buying s*aves, disecting them, watching them slowly die in agony, messing with the brain of his s*aves to mess with their soul later.

Someone who's ​willing to do anything for the sake of his research.

Her biggest wish was to have his master to do a brain surgery, and turns her into a completely obedient s*ave, willing to do anything to serve his master..... which his master really done to her later, per her request and his wish.

Of course, she was so ecstatic to prove her allegiance to his master by joyfully volunteering herself

For starters, it's said that alchemy is frowned upon because magic is more than enough for people. But shortly after that, the MC does the thing that is arduous even with magic, when he had only a meager amount of resources. After this, do you still believe that the area which is THAT useful can be regarded as something unwanted? I don't.

The manner in which the MC advances in the alchemy deserves a separate passage:

Overlord - I'm one of the mightiest beings because I'm a goddamn lich with a tomb full of top-tier monsters.

Reverend Insanity - I can accumulate strength incredibly fast because I have 500 years of experience in this world from my previous life.

Ouroboros - I can discover things in alchemy that the whole world was unaware of because f**k you, that's why.

Besides, except that he's from Japan of the 21st century, there's NO information about his background at all. Does living in Japan make you a prodigy able to do scientific breakthroughs like a piece of cake? Nope.

Talking about his subordinates, it seems like he has stumbled not on just a jackpot, but upon a bloody lake of black swans.

Still want to give it a try?

The dialogues are sometimes so bad that you will have to scroll a full screen back to read the question because the answer was given after three paragraphs of setting explanation.

The atmosphere of the moment, especially in fights, is screwed up regularly. Yeah, let's listen to a child speaking a philosophical pitch in mid-battle, which is so long that even if Eminem had read it full-speed, the whole group would've been decimated before he ends it.

Also, I didn't mention the constant disregard of the "Show don't tell" rule together with the power level problems, when it inflates so ridiculously fast and so high that you have not even a single clue what the hell will be happening on later stages as we didn't even go past the middle of the story.

In actuality, there's two r*pe scenes as of chapter 17. But not explicit content and only mentioned. It doesn't involve the MC though.

When MC plays fool and a party of adventurers tasked with investigating him which have first hand experience with his super OP maid believes cheap bullsh*t while conveniently ignoring the fact that the super loyal super OP maid is his s*ave which should already be enough to consider MC not a "simple fool" as well as other stuff like his maids/butlers having high quality magic clothes better than those of nobles and his "hired adventurer guard" who was guarding "magic fridge" made of very expensive stuff having much better equipment than royal guards. What's worse they acted so s*upid without even being brainwashed.

Speaking about brainwashing - almost every chapter before that was about showing how cool MC was and how "powerful and smart" his enemies are only to meet "everyone got brainwashed and lived happily after" end. The same brainwashing (besides other bullsh*t like that it turns common people into OP soldiers) is how the MC gets his loyal followers, their views or personality doesn't matter, MC uses brainwashing and they are instantly loyal to him, there's no need to develop characters, after all it's yet another MC power fantasy.

The character in this story "died" before, which more or less.... made him want not to die again. This he attempts to achieve trough the ability they call "alchemy" which is pretty much scoffed at, but better than it seems.

The character himself, is the "mad scientist" type, which attempts to gain immortality trough practicing alchemy, which he does by using s*aves as experimental objects... to acquire and dispose of them he does use s*aves as well, while he especially favors the first s*ave ever bought.

Sadly he was to spooked by what happened. He cannot even trust this s*ave, that cares about him extremly, until he was able to fully mindcontrol her.

The interesting part of this story is, that instead of the selfish type of idiot that does more harm than good often (well if he does something on his own.... without bullsh*t luck happening) this character actually has goals one can understand to a certain degree and does not have the absolute extreme advantage other protagonists have... (like revolutionating the agricultural, economical and other aspects without having prior dealings with those before.... though he most likely will push the medical knowledge of the world forward by a lot after a while (be it to make money or because he died and his notes were distributed to alchemists..... a true tragedy would be if they had simply burn all his work...))

Naturally many may find such a character repulsive and would wish him the worst, but I honestly don't. I would rather have many of those hero's killed that save the world by luck (and would have done far more harm than not without the luck) than him. He is a relatable character with an actual motive that is not a shirt chasing bit*h that simply saves the world cause yeah laughs and luls but simply does his thing and most likely will do more good than harmtrough it for the entirety of his "race". (though one could discuss how bad it would be for the environment and monsters if adventurers live longer and the demand for goods of them rises and if certain necessities [if there are any] are not possible to gain again, though keeping them like "pets" may work.... though I wouldn't want that for them.... oh well I have been going on about a lot of cut up thoughts and not fully explained stuff that I could have left away... but hey whatever. I just typed that thing already so it will stay.)

That star I have taken away is actually for it moving a bit faster than I had like and him practicing something that is more powerful than many believe... just hated the cliché always did.... xD

*Thanks to the guy that put this into a spoiler, sorry if it may be hard to understand sometimes, but english is not my first language.

• Writing: 5 / 5 (Masterful)
• Translation: 4.5 / 5 (Excellent)
• Characters: 4.5 / 5 (Excellent)
• Story: 3.5 / 5 (Good)
• World: 3.5 / 5 (Good)

• Brilliantly deranged villain protagonist.
• Smart story.
• Excellent use of multiple perspectives to flesh out the world and make up for the protagonist's human deficiencies.
• Characters feel like real people. (albeit deranged, in the case of the protagonist and his allies)
• The author has no illusions about his protagonist and clearly contrasts his brokenness with other characters who possess the various good qualities that he lacks. Rather than glorifying the villain, the story is... thought provoking. Bittersweet and sad.

• Emotion, when present, is almost entirely implied in this story. The protagonist's narration is, at least on the surface, extremely clinical. (the things that the author chooses to write, and the things that he omits, betray that a lot more than that is going on, though)
• The protagonist is an intelligent villain who completely ignores typical villain tropes. Naturally, this means that he takes great care to ensure that others don't realize just how dangerous he actually is. Unfortunately, this also means that he never experiences challenges appropriate to his current "power level", which hurts the story.
• While there is technically romance, it is as muted and twisted as the rest of the protagonist's personality.
• The protagonist regularly and consistently does things that would turn your stomach without batting an eye.
• ... For pity's sake, this is the story of a soulless b*stard who makes the characters from Overlord look like kindergartners. It should be pretty obvious why this might not be your cup of tea.

First, our MC is calm and racional without emotions (yea I think he is robot, bcs "CALM" MC is calm when sh1t happens but this guy can't feel anything! Anger? Hate? Greed? Fear? Nope just pure instinct to reach immorality. He talks about how he don't want to die but you don't feel like he is afraid). How im supposed get happy when robot just experiment with s*aves to get more inhuman (he isn't immortal yet, but thats our plot. I don't know how you call immortal without emotions, but I think its called ROBOT).

Second, I thought I find some good point where I catch it and it will be at least fun. Nope, all in this novel feel so empty. MC trained his puppet so good and himself so she can destroy any adventurers and he can make better equipment then have royal guards (yea.. in this world alchemy is so "BAD" job)

Third, if this MC is so rational why he act like carefree dumb and always win. His father feared him almost hate him so why he didn't try stop that robot? He almost destroyed his name! He was count! He should be obsessed with his name and property! He should lock him up or something! But he just looked on how he stained his name reputation and then died.

Finn... Why our MC didn't just "fix" king? He should be rational, so why he just don't manipulated with king when he needs funds OR just some merchant?

His puppets are better then any guards in this time and even his alchemy is better then magic so why that s*upid build tag? Where he just put all work to puppets...