My Daughters Have Become Gods

rob z says:

45 chapters in, and it is certainly NOT poison so far, but has the potential to become so (for reasons very likely different than the below reviewers express).

Basic premise (with mild spoilers from first 2 chapters) is MC is transported to a fantasy world where he becomes a hero, joins a party with a beastman, saint, wizard, and elf archer, and defeats the demon queen. In the final fight, though, the DQ and MC have a touching moment before DQ dies, where he tells the DQ his true (Korean) name.

MC then, like typical dumb@ss MCs in these stories, wants to go back to Korea right away (instead of living a life of luxury, fame, adulation, surrounded by women, etc). However, before he gets there, he is magically pulled back to the fantasy world by the saint, who is dying – although it is 10 years after he initially left. Apparently, there are devils who have invaded and killed his party members, each of whom (other than the saint) left behind a daughter. (Note: demons and devils are different in this story, and it can get confusing). So MC kills the head devil (or so he thinks) and goes to raise the 3 daughters somewhere safe (off in the forest).

Unfortunately, a high ranking devil finds them, plans a trap, and MC is killed as a result while saving his daughters. MC then reincarnates 2000 years later in the fantasy world as the son of a count, with all memories intact, and was even given the same name as he had in the past. He finds out the three girls he raised (I guess you can call them his daughters) all became goddesses and stamped out the devils (or so everyone thinks). He has an older sister, who discovers he is a reincarnator (because she is one herself).

Of course, the daughters never really stopped looking for the MC (although they gave up hope after a while because his soul was from a different world / dimension), and learn through an oracle he has returned – so they send their followers to find him. Of course, there are still devils, and they try to find him also. Some stuff happens (won’t spoil), there is a 15 year time skip (during which time MC was living inside his holy sword), and the story turns into an academy novel (i.e. MC enters the academy founded by one of his daughters because apparently some devils have infiltrated and he wants to clean the place up). And of course, at the academy, all the girls in the story show up in one form or another.

So first, why I disagree with the below reviewers who are calling it poison: yes, its a pretty simple story, and there is not much in the way of character development (at least so far) – but that doesn’t make it poison, and in fact I enjoyed this more than a lot of garbage novels that have been popping up recently.

Diatribe time: we really need to establish a clear baseline for what is poison (or when you call something poison, you should clearly explain why). The only stories where I have seen near universal agreement as being poison are NTR, and r@pe / child / sexual abuse. After that, given this is a Korean novel site, stories with beta / cuck / simp Japanese novel style MCs also seem to be generally regarded as poison. Gender reverse worlds and TS stories also seem to be viewed as poison for a number of folks. From there it really diverges.

So this is a simple story, and the author isn’t the most skilled, but the mtl is pretty decent, we’ve got some yanderes brewing, and there has been nothing really offensive so far with respect to bad tropes. So far, I would put this in the top half of novels I have read on this site – its a popcorn / fluff piece you can use to kill some time while waiting for your favorite stories to be updated.

So why do I think this might become poison? First, because this is heading down an ambiguous / unconsummated harem path, where a bunch of girls are in love with the MC, but nothing every really happens. I find this kind of story to be absolute poison. Second, at the academy, we are starting to see some hints of the “I must hide my powers” because “reasons” trope, which is the second worst trope in all of web novels, only behind the dense MC.