The Escort Knight Who Is Being Obsessed Over by the Villainess Wants To Run Away

rob z says:

Shelwyn, Teezy – you all are absolutely right; this novel seems to have great potential; very interesting so far. 8/10.

Quick summary: MC is a possessor of a character in a game world, who awakens at the moment when he is assembled with a group of guys all of a similar age who are candidates for training as an escort knight for a young noble lady. MC does not have any memories or know anything about his character’s background, other than than that he may have been a beggar. The noble lady in the game is an NPC, but in the game she was the only NPC that was unkillable – super powerful, psychopath, killed her family, and likely to kill you – she also has a tendency to kill all her escort knights. So of course, MC wants to find a way to not get selected without being so offensive he gets killed-and fails, in fact impressing himself upon the noble lady. He then joinsa group of several hundred young men training for the position of escort knight and undergoes various adventures (think like Ender in Ender’s Game), all the while trying to figure out how he can ultimately escape with enough money that he can survive. However, in so doing, he starts to learn about the noble young lady, who isn’t that crazy yet, and the terrible family circumstances under which she suffers – which the readers can readily tell are what turn her psychopath – and starts to interfere with them (as one example, her tutor was literally named the Maquis de Sade – he does not end well). And just as the first set of translated chapters end, we start to learn the character the MC possessed was more than meets the eye.

Mythincal Djinn – awful take, and misunderstanding novels sure as hell aren’t poison in and of themselves. Misunderstanding can be good or bad, but many of the misunderstanding novels on this site are much better than the generic harem / shounen OP MC crap of which there is way too much out there.

In fact, we all ask for poison testers, but there seems to be very little agreement on what constitutes “poison”. There are only two categories of novels that I would submit should be absolute poison:

(1) weak, pathetic, beta MCs
(2) MCs that get off on being NTR’d

No justification whatsoever for these genres. After that, there are a number of things that should in the majority of circumstances be considered “poison”, but there may be grounds for disagreement

(1) MCs that “hide their powers” because “reasons”
(2) dense / hearing impaired MCs (i.e. never hears the girl’s confessions and asks “what did you say”?)
(3) excessive tsunderes
(4) unconsummated harem (i.e. harem where the MC never picks one or more of the harem members and leaves it ambiguous or ends up a eunuch)
(5) NTR where the MC just bends over and takes it

I also personally find any wuxia BS that mentions dantians, cultivation, transcendence, heavenly demons, or any of those tropes to be poison, but understand others feel differently.