I’m Not a Hero Like You

Tristan boss says:

He gets better as time goes on. The author also doesn’t explain everything from the beginning. At first all we know is he’s talentless, everyone around him is blind to that fact because he’s the son of a hero, his mother starves and abuses him for “not trying hard enough”, his fiance is a yandere who wants to drug him into a sex slave, the prince is a dooshbag who beats him regularly over a childhood grudge, everyone ignores it because they think it’ll be a learning experience for him. His father is a negligent parent who ignores all this. The demon king is literally using him for entertainment and at first doesn’t care if he dies.
Later it’s explained that Karel was literally cursed the day after he was born and that curse gives him endless misfortune and amplifies both his own negative emotions and what others hold towards him. Kariel was actually born a genius bit sacrificed his talent in a certain incident five years ago in a ritual to save the elves. Afterwards his own parents and everyone betrayed and framed him for the “greater good”, thus breaking his heart. He then decided he wanted to leave the empire, but because they wanted to keep using him his parents wiped slmost all his memories, including his first love. Then a talentless newborn in a ten year old body was continually abused while carrying the expectations of a supergenius by everyone he knew.
I personally think Karel does pretty well. He couldn’t really improve his situation as long as he remained in the empire because his mother was managing his every breath. He taught himself music to cope with his pain and planned to escape and live on his own at age 15. When the demon king throws him into an infinite death simulator, he devotes himself to the opportunity instead of just rejecting it. Whenever he says “I’m cursed”, he’s not complaining, he’s just stating a fact of why he can’t get with anyone.