Name: Surrounded Mob wants to Quietly Withdraw Raw Link: https://www.alphapolis.co.jp/novel/637327396/973321998 NU Link: https://www.novelupdates.com/series/surrounded-mob-wants-to-quietly-withdraw/ Description: Mikuriya Tooru, whose hobby is reading and special skill is housework, was reincarnated into the mob character Oswald, the cousin of the villainous daughter and the evil general’s first love, who was abandoned because he had been sleeping unconscious for a year. In order to save his cousin Lucrezia, he has no choice but to marry the King’s younger brother, the evil general….What? Since when were there boys love? Spoiler: it's weirdly fluffy? - The MC was technically dead in the beginning but the ML the General Prince demanded a witch to do some experiments on the MC's fractured soul to bring him back to life. ML didn't care what came back as long as some part of his loved one came back. MC is super physically weak his body has been technically dead for 10 years. He can barely speak, but ML takes advantage and immediately proposes marriage. - MC realizes he's in a super twisted otome game that he was playing back in Japan, but his character was the former fiance of the Villainess who came to be in a terrible position in life due to it. He remembered her as a character he adored and rooted for as a fan since, she deeply suffered as a character kinda Zuko from Avatar. Meanwhile, he found the Heroine's borderline slutty manipulative ways intolerable. - MC agrees to the proposal with a stipulation that he adopts and properly takes care of Lucrezia the Villainess. ML agrees immediately. - Lucrezia as kid bursts in and the readers find out she was neglected and terribly abused like in the original story by her fallen noble family, and her brother? from a concubine kicks her out to what is essentially a cold palace with no one and nothing to care for her. She's I think 7-8 at the time? She's infinitely grateful towards MC and promises to care for him. Which true to her word she does. As a kid she takes to nursing and caring for MC like a fish to water. Even competing with the ML for it. - Lucrezia grows up beautifully and properly under MC's doting and the ML's protection. She gets education even superior to that of school she was supposed to go to in the Orignal!Plot of the Otome Game. - Heroine Lumina treats the MC as a super rare hidden character because of his "god-like prophecy cheat" and hates the Villainess for being close to the MC. She even accuses Lucrezia for being reincarnated like her. - MC uses his game knowledge to manipulate royalty to make outcomes favorable to him, but this backfires in a huge way when the shitty otome capture targets and the Lumina decide to wipe out the now peaceful northern people. In the original game, they were rebellious due to the crown starving them through a failed harvest and a harsh winter. MC forced the crown to give them support and made sure they made it through with the promise they would pay them with future increased taxes. Thus, they actually welcomed the Lumina's army thinking it was just time for them to collect money. Instead, they in extremely violent Dothraki-like manner sacked them. Basically the people of the north are NO MORE. - The POV of the Crown Prince/Capture Target was nauseating. He was getting high off slaughtering them and calling them savages. He even sees the Lumina soaked in the blood of the people charming, and recounts how he deeply loves her. However, he's planning for his younger brother to initially marry her to "lift the curse" that was bestowed on the royalty of his family. He sees his Uncle/ML bring his wife - he was smug thinking he stole the credit of his famous General Uncle until he sees MC weeping bitterly over one of the bodies of a young man who was transformed dragon begging/praying for forgiveness and not curse his beloved people more. Via the MC's power, the whole area was cleansed and many of souls were lead to peace. Revealing via the color of the souls that nearly ALL of them were innocent - making the idiotic Crown Prince question if what he did was correct. He was later punished via room confinement because all the otome capture targets and the heroine lead the army WITHOUT PERMISSION. - In a Lucrezia POV, we see she worships MC as if he was a God. He essentially rescued her from a terrible position, gave her all the things in the world, was given an education to be envious of, unconditional love and support via MC, and unconditional protection via ML. She knows intrinsically she wouldn't have been so blessed without MC's favor. She hopes to never marry and stay with her parents until she dies because the love she receives now she will forever compare to anything else anyone else tries to give her.
great - it gets dark and angsty - An SSS-rank adventurer finds Tooru/Oswald; then speaks to his Vissario about him. Revealing that the SSS-rank adventurer was the brother of the now reincarnated Oswald. He was at first surprised and then thanks Vissario for taking such good care of him and there isn't anyone more trustworthy. When Vissario proudly proclaims, "He is my treasure." The SSS-rank adventurer begins to cry. - There is a super yaoi fan who super supports Oswald while grossing him out? She goes so far as to say stuff like - "crusted with semen." - The Crown Prince falls to the Dragon's Curse because when he leads the subjugation up North he slaughtered the white lindworm who oversaw the North. Now he's basically a still alive decomposing body. - The Crown Prince is against the Heroine and plots to arrest her. Lumina thinks Oswald's route is super hard mode. Then while looking through stuff in Oswald's birth home find out that he is half-dragon/human. She thinks that the setting is SUPER romantic! Plans on seperating hi - the heroine is delusional and truly believes that the Villainess is reincarnated and that Oswald is a great Prophet that will marry the "Saintess Heroine" and oversee the world. - The 2nd Prince is a fucking yandere who I believe fell in LUST with Lucrezia and plots to kill Oswald. edit: not the 2nd prince? I'm so confused - Lumina shocks Oswald saying he's half-dragon and says "I will love even if you're not human." Oswald is like - "WTF is she smoking? I'm already a human?" - Lumina attacks Lucrezia. Oswald finally snaps. Lumina throat Oswald was feeling her up and instead, he physically rips out her heart - Apparently Lumina in her past life was deeply envious of everything and everyone around her. She bullies, lies, cheats, steals and pulls NTR because she was just a bottomless pit of envy. - Oswald outs her as Akari Seta who unspeakable countless crimes not only in the past life but this life? Lumina/Akari?/Hikari? (mtl is so confusing) screams that she wants everything that the world offers. - Lucrezia lays a trap for a spy; he comes out and says to abandon the country and run away; gets caught by soldiers