English text review - 3 stars!
- ★★★ Excellent!!!
Everything that happened around Kenichi, the bullying, the betrayal, the mistreatment was self-inflicted.
Indirectly he ruined Shizuku who was basically in love with him and he ruined his stepsister too.
The true evils in this work are the 2 men that killed the main character's mom and the cheating dad.
The bullying is self-inflicted: if Kenichi was normal, clean, outspoken and extrovert, Ikezuki wouldn't have messed with him in the first place, so he empowered Ikezuki's bad behaviour.
You can hate Shizuku or Kotone, but in the end, the most hateful is Kenichi. I think the author thought the same way and "punished" Kenichi in the end by leaving him as an husk after his revenge.
Anyway, I'm not a reviewer but a novel that can make me write something like this deserves 3 stars. It's a nice work focused on violent revenge on the perpetrators, it's refreshing at start but after the reasons about everything unravel, you see there's a bigger plot behind the occasional protagonist "lol" "laughs"...
I hope there'll be an "IF" setting, but I reckon it's impossible as the change happened to the protagonist after the mother's death is basically Kurisu's death in Steins;Gate, something that can't be undone for the sake of the world line/plot.
Thanks author for the nice ride!