This sucks. It starts with a supposedly jaded and cynical former hero, or that's what you're led to believe. Unfortunately, you quickly find out he's just pathetic. The only reason he acts cold and aloof is because of a residual habit from the original body. You know, that same trope from a few novels, like "My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending."

But inwardly, the MC is a whiny, naïve, teenager. Something you'd see in a typical Japanese web novel. Is that all? Yes. There's nothing more to this story.... more>> If you don't like the main character, you won't like anything. The romance is forced because of MC's own s*upidity and naïvety. He very clearly explains why he doesn't trust people anymore, regardless of his ability to see their soul. He explains that fact in detail and then proceeds to contradict himself the very next chapter he uses this ability of his and sees a pure soul.

The MC's only redeeming quality is his strength, but he's overall unlikeable, much like this novel. <<less

It’s been a while since I’ve read this kind of painfully unbearable novel.

You know what, in contrast to the other review, I kinda like the main character. He is cool and all.

I also like the ‘Swordmanship Instructor’ part of the novel

... more>> but god f*cking damn, the pacing of this garbage.

a ‘Romance Novel’ part of this sh*t is so unbearable that it just cancels out every single things that made me feel this novel is ‘fun’

Simply explaining, the rest of the novel flows like this -> MC do something -> woman misunderstands -> she gets angry -> she do some bullsh*t stuffs, and repeat, and repeat.

It is funny at first but it’s so f*cking overused that it’s just annoying.

I mean the woman isn’t even dating the main character, why is she acting like a bit*h just because main character talked with another female.

I also hates how the author wastes your time by writing an unnecessary another perspective, deliberately spending thousands of words just to explain that ‘this bit*h has misunderstand her delusional boyfriend!’

Another stuff that ruins the pacing is well, how the situation just suddenly change... without warning.

For example; here we are, talking about main character doing his stuff like training his body. Then in the next paragraph it could go to something like, ___ is planning meticulously how he’ll ___ to ___ stuffs.

It’s a pity though because I quite liked the idea at first but it quickly descends to garbage not worth your time. Maybe a different author + ‘I Became a Swordsmanship Instructor’ would do fine? <<less

The book is pretty standard for this genre, but in my opinion an enjoyable read so far.

I don't really agree with the other reviews, and as always for everyone thinking of reading a book you should probably just try it since reviews are full of bias and personal preferences or things taken out of context and nitpicked. Especially the last one, and I'm probably guilty of it too a lot with some of my reviews, but people like to complain about x being an issue but realistically it rarely matters... more>> in the scheme of the book and while person 1 might have a problem person 2-10 will be perfectly fine with it, so I recommend just giving the first few chapters a shot for every book and decide for yourself.

Wretchedd talks about the MC throwing out the ring but thats explained I think fine in universe. He doesn't like having anything on his hands and he was frustrated and pissed at being isekaied so in a moment of answer he threw the ring out, he even regrets its later since it could be worth a lot.

Their other thing is about the world being "dark" but I think its pretty average if anything. It's based on a romance fantasy and those usually have this type of thing in some form, and I might just be dull to it at this point but I wouldn't consider this book even remotely dark. It's nothing like a lot of the revenge books or ones where everything is out to get the protagonist or quite a few other common story archtypes that I would normally classify as dark. So far the line about the goblins doing, goblin things, is really the only thing. To continue on my point above, what one person finds as a negative that makes them drop a book, another person will barely think about when reading. I disagree with their opinion, but that doesn't mean that you will, so to reintegrate my earlier point rather than reading reviews to see if you will like a book just give it a try. Anyway, the book I would say is worth a try at least. There isn't anything so far that makes the book unique or stand out. The characters have the standard depth that you see, the comedy some might find funny, the world building is pretty average, at least so far while there isn't really anything that makes this book one that I find amazing, theres not much that I dislike which makes it a pretty enjoyable read. <<less

Hello, it's Illidan and today I will review this novel. Quite a bad one in my opinion... Well, it's only 18 chapters and it can't be judged harshly. But as other reviewer said, it doesn't form positive opinion from the start and only makes it worser.

Let's talk a little bit about MC, an unlikable OP bastard. You maybe try to defend him, like : "Muh, he spend 10 years in dark world fantasy, he have some PTSD and etc", doesn't explain why he behaves himself like this, while having one... more>> certain abillity. To see emotions of other people with percentages. I will write in spoilers, the most annoying moments of this novel

Spoiler

After saving first girl which a bit delusional and tends to overthing some things, he later asks her for "who is a villainess" and then proceeds to behave like terminator. Ignoring higher ups of academy and searching for heroine and simply saying to that "villainess", to get lost. After doing that, he checked her emotions and all his reaction is... What the hell this body owner did before.

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Sorry if my review was pretty bland or bad, compared to any other review on NU. It's my first time writing review on novels related site.

Personal rating 1/5. Overall rating 2-3/5 <<less

This is a classic academy misunderstandings type novel that got ruined by its MC and forced romance, for me at least.

It started decent but gets frustrating to read really quickly as the MC is just one big hypocrite with a really unlikeable personality. The relationship and interaction between MC and main girl (with soul purer than a saintess but act like a possessive psycho) also irks me really much.

I will say give it a try until ch10 or something. But honestly if you are looking for academy + teacher type... more>> novel there’s really much better out there. <<less