It's no grand narrative thst makes life. It's the trivial things like hate and favor that determine the future. Those are the mechanisms that determine the future.

He finds out that if he graduates from the academy or whatever, he has to join the military, because he doesn't want to go into the military, despite having already been in the military back in his world, he first tries to get himself expelled, and when that fails because his father cuts off his funds and tells him that he needs to get better grades or he'll pull him out of school and enlist him anyways, he first shows off his absurdly overpowered magic cheat to get good grades, and then when he gets back access to his dad's money he steals a shitload of it and runs away. Obviously he is caught soon after and returned to school, and he is told that if he gets really good grades he can avoid the mandatory enlistment upon graduation. So all that could have been easily avoided with his cheat skill if he literally put in even the slightest bit of effort into researching his situation. Or asked about his options at all. What a useless arc that was, complete waste of time.

Another thing that annoys me about him is the sheer lack of any sort of interest in his new situation, like the first day he wakes up he finds a magical hundred year old cat that he can communicate with because of his cheat. He read the manuscript so he knows that talking cats aren't a regular thing in this world, but he just straight up accepts it, doesn't try to research how this magical talking cat can exist, doesn't ask anyone about magical long lived animals or anything. The worst part is the cat itself, it serves as a basic as heck mentor character that exists for no reason but to fill the role of introducing the character to the world without making him interact with real people in ways that have actual consequences, and also be the cute mascot that apparently every single damn story needs for some reason.

forced into this situation by the author of the novel by making his jump off a bridge and drown.

survived his death event.

rewite what happens in the book 3 times each chapter.

He ends up falling into a bridge and drowning. I don’t have an issue with way he died.

My problem lies with the fact that the pulled the “it called out to me“ card. If they wanted him to accidentally fall and not be suicidal then they could’ve made him drunk since he did go out to eat with his ex-superiors.

Maybe cuss them out while he’s walking aimlessly near the bridge and make him trip and fall off.
Idk-- just not the “oh it called out to me.“ it isn’t a big deal but it just peeved me.

Behemoth is literally POINTLESS--
The only point of him being there is to be that one tutorial guide npc.

He serves no point to the plot. He’s only there so that the MC doesn’t need to interact with other characters to get information.

Other than the times the MC asks him for info he’s almost forgettable. Only popping up to talk about his wine addiction.

Also from the early chapters when the MC asks if all cats are like him he says he’s one of a kind. But in the later chapters the MC just reveals that he’s 100 years old cat and no one bats an eye??? They just treat it like it’s normal.

PLUS behemoth has a useful ability but the MC doesn’t even bother to utilize it.

He repeated that cycle multiple times. He acts too much like a kid for a 30 year old man.

The first time he did that when he skipped school and had a drinking spree for a week.

So that he could get kicked out of school and not enlist in the military. Then his dad tells him that he’s gonna to freeze the mc’s bank account and enlist him early if he doesn’t get his grades up.

So he kinda flunks the swordsmanship class but aces the magic class. His dad didn’t even ask him to make it to top 10 btw— the MC just put that on himself. He did so well that his teacher said that he would be an 8-circle mage. Which contradicts the MC saying he doesn’t want to stand out.

The second time he repeats this cycle is when he’s waiting in the hallway with the protagonist.

The MC finds out that “Leo” was actually Arthur, the protagonist. He tries to use his editor’s authority skill to make it so that him and Arthur never met.

It doesn’t work the first time but he still tries anyway. Using up all of the times he could use the ability. Which is pretty s*upid.

Clearly the reason the author rejected the first one was because they wanted the MC to interact with Arthur. But he still tries it TWICE— even though he could only use the ability three times per chapter.

I also hated how he immediately avoids the protagonist the moment he found out his identity. Like seriously? Way to make yourself suspicious. Be neutral so that he doesn’t get interested/curious. Talk to him enough while distancing yourself since you guys didn’t talk in school before in the first place.

The third time is when he goes off and runs away. Only to get caught and get detained because he injured a knight. It was a half-assed attempt in the first place. It wasn’t thought out well enough. Did he forget who his dad is? His dad is filthy rich he could easily hire people to track him down.

And the most frustrating part is that we find out that all his efforts to drop out in attempts to not enlist is POINTLESS because he could've just been at the top of the magic course whatever you call it so that he could be exempt.

Till now everytime he meets the 'antagonist' he shivers and clenches his fists hard enough for blood to come out etc.. in order to resists the charm abilities. It's come to the point where everytime I see the antagonist's name mentioned I can immediately predict these series of actions the MC will make in the following lines. Yes we get that the enemy has an OP charm ability that even overpower's MC's ability... Please stop shoving it down our throats.

he doesn't want to get involved with the story at first, nor does he cares what the author wants till it was revealed that if he does not help the story main character, the world will pretty much collapse.

MC avoid him at all cost once he realize the identity of his drinking buddy, lol.

(-) slow pace, the beginning feels incredibly boring.

(+) But it slowly catches up, and the world building is fairly well made.

(-) MC feels lackadaisical, pulled dumb moves despite trying to avoid attention, and probably gonna annoy you with his active whim and avoidance to the story.

(+) But he developed better along the way, accepted his inevitable role within the manuscript as he notes the different development ongoing, solving mysteries, and protecting the protagonist.

(-) it's difficult to identify who is speaking when there are more than two characters speaking.

(+) The friendships between the characters (especially MC and manuscript's Protag) is developing wonderfully. The mind games MC plays with the enemy is also very interesting.