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I Became the Narrow-Eyed Henchman of the Evil Boss
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Rating(4.2 / 5.0, 254 votes)
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4    19% (47 votes)
3    10% (25 votes)
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2024
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221 Chapters
Main Story- 219 Chapters (Complete)
Side Stories- 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
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All Time Rank: #2544
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I’ve been struggling for over a decade in this world where magic is equivalent to science. And now I’ve realized that my employer is the protagonist’s enemy.

…Boss, can I quit my job?

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악덕 사장의 실눈 심복이 되었다
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Review
14 Reviews


MrCents_04
MrCents_04
Jul 12, 2024
Status: --
Dont trust the low rating. The series is good and has a unique aspects unlike the other stories so far.

It has the similar vibe of Let this Grieving Soul retire. The protagonist is Orthes, a transmigrator.

Carisia is his boss. Leader and President of Hydra Corporation.

... more>> Arabelle, First Director. Intelligence.

MC is trying his best to prevent the ascension of the Mage King : the blonde protagonist, and resign as a confidant of the boss. The story is about 'misunderstanding' and I feel disheartened how vile the cruel raters rate it too low. It deserves a novel award somehow. The setting has a mixed development of 2077 cyberpunk with ancient magic.

I dont want to spoil any further, but rest assured, it is worth of your time if you are a fan of this type of comedy work.

I dont recommend it to OP hungered, serious type, Yuri and Yaio readers because the series aint pe*verted enough to become like that.

I highly recommend it to readers who actually loves comedy and laugh. <<less
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Austinless
Austinless
Jul 12, 2024
Status: c14
I really enjoy this story. I was afraid it would be generic and still it is a little early to tell but I've already enjoyed myself immensely so I'm giving it five stars!

Unfortunately if you are looking for a story that constantly follows the relationship between the main character and his boss (I love those) you'll be disappointed, at least until where I've read. Rather this story really is about how he is working in a sci-fi magic corporation and making his impressions on those around him. It's interesting because... more>> while his impressions do still rely on misunderstandings--I hate those >: (-- the main character is still actually competent and dare I say cool as the second in command of the boss!

The setting is nice and a real highlight that helps the story to distinguish itself, reminding me a little of warhammer 40k with the techno magic/pyschic stuff at points and is nicely spiced in with the characters shenanigans and plots. Speaking of characters I do enjoy them too! Since its so early there hasn't been much development of any of them but at least in their descriptions with techno magic stuff embedded inside of them, some having six mechanical limbs etc.

Anyway wished I could say more but it's like 4am and I wish for this to have a long and healthy translation :) <<less
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fantasy
fantasy
Aug 26, 2024
Status: c13
It reads weird, sort of like cleaned-up MTL. Some dialogue makes little sense. New terms are introduced left and right. Sometimes sentences are a bit weird.

The novel is based on misunderstandings, similar to the eminence in the shadows I'd say - the MC doesn't necessarily have any complex plans but it always gets interpreted as such. It's a bit silly sometimes, especially in a novel that's not going for comedy. Some extrapolations outright don't make sense.

So far, the world is really interesting - I'd say it's the best part of... more>> the novel. Looking forward to how it develops. <<less
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Sareza
Sareza
Aug 03, 2024
Status: c38
This review is highly subjective, but here it goes. I originally thought of giving it just 4 stars, but the story shows so much potential that I decided to bump up my rating. The setting is unique, blending cyberpunk themes with magic and gods, a combo I haven't come across before.

The story itself is quite good, and the comedy and misunderstandings add a lot of charm. There are a lot of unknown elements that keep popping up, adding to the mystery behind the MC. However, the frequent POV shifts can... more>> be a bit confusing. As for the action scenes, meh.

On the bright side, the world-building is developing nicely, and the translation is solid, which is crucial given the frequent POV changes. If it were poorly translated, it would be hard to keep track of who's talking.

Overall, it's a good read with a very unique setting and power system. The misunderstandings and evolving world-building show a lot of potential. However, it does suffer from too many POV changes and random plot elements that aren't explained in advance, making the story a bit hard to follow. Right now, I'd rate it an 7.5/10.

PS. If the story starts getting repetitive and is still making no progress after Chapter 38, I might have to drop my rating to 4 stars or lower. Right now, I'm giving it 5 stars because it shows a lot of potential and there's room for improvement as it progresses. I'm really hoping it delivers on that promise.

Also here's the list of characters that has the most impact in the story, just so that I won't forget.

Spoiler

•Orthes - MC, No Mana, Anti-Magic, Narrow Eyes, Faint Presence, Intimidating, Smiling, Skilled Swordsman/Assassin, Gets misunderstood/pushover (?), Superhuman

•Carisia - MC's boss, Hydra Corporation Leader, Light Magician, Divinity Incarnation/Fragment

•Arabelle - Arachnid Queen, 70% Cyber, Intelligence gathering

•Meconion - Green haired Alruane-human hybrid, Drug Dealer

•Kaicle - 3m Giant, Pythos Tower, Mage

•Geryon - Looks like Dr. Octopus, Betrayal then got beaten up

•Divius - Body Modifier

•Dimedes - Beast Tamer

•Neuro - Head of Hunter's Association

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Forgot to add this in, but the MC isn't an all-powerful character, he's just strong and his eye powers is incredibly burdensome for his body. <<less
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ediav42
ediav42
Sep 02, 2024
Status: c66
So premise has MC reincarnated into a story he had read when on Earth before the story begins.

MC is a mysterious shady guy whose social skills and general demeanor culminate in him being a “suspicious bastard.” His boss is a big villain who he unknowingly picked up and helped found their organization.

... more>>
Spoiler

Her goal is to destroy an OP artifact (one of ten) and legacy of the Mage King who was the protagonist of the story MC originally read before arriving in this world.

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So cue the antics and misunderstandings that ensue while MC works to not have the world go from cyberpunk (magic punk?) to an apocalyptic hellscape that the original story concluded with. <<less
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Thecomicgeek
Thecomicgeek
Sep 02, 2024
Status: c65
Rating 3.5 Stars

* The translation reads strange. It feels like there is something missing there is usually nothing wrong with the sentence but sometimes I get confused it happens less and less as you go further though

*I am really intrigued by the setting in the story. Its a dystopian technologically advanced world with magic and a setting where holy powers are presently considered outdated and weaker than magic ever since the gods were ousted/defeated/killed?

Theres also hints of cultivation with 10 factions representing the magical elements competing to gather resources in... more>> order to "ascend".

There are humans (no races so far) dwarves, mutants (chimeras), spirits (dryad), elves (dark elf), Artificial beings etc. And even different classes Cyborgs, Wizards, Druids, Technomancers, Necromancers, Tamers/Summoners?

Honestly if you have watched the anime Blood Brigade you'd recognize the settings especially the thing about the MC's eyes.

*Characterization is kind of lacking I feel like I just know the basics of the characters bio-data the settings for the personality of characters are provided but somehow it comes off as bland. I am not sure if it is intentional for the purpose of story driven writing or just a lack of as the author isn't very big in visualization of the locations for example.

There are no le*d pe*verted humor despite the haremy feel and misunderstanding trope prevalent in the story. But honestly with the cast and settings of this world I'm more disappointed it followed the cliche that the main characters are one male and the rest all female and the other males are mostly villains/henchmen or backdrops.

Summary: At 65 chapters its too early to tell if this book is good or bad. But so far its been an ok read. It wasn't particularly exciting or boring but it does have intrigue. My personal opinion is with the authors smorgasbord of world settings I both respect, pity and slightly think their insane there are so many settings that everything is quite literally possible its either going to be an epic or a bunch of deus ex machinas if they go the simpler route. So Im putting this on read later 2 years from now. <<less
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God Emorly
God Emorly
Nov 24, 2024
Status: c25
It feels like I'm listening to my 12 year old brother explaining his imaginary superpower fight.

This world and Powersystem sounds really cool... even the characters feel multifaceted.

But I don't know what to feel reading this.

... more>> Is the MC really strong? No clue....

Is the MC actually kind of weak and just gaslit everyone? No clue....

Is he somewhere in the middle between gaslighting and actually being powerful?

I don't fckn know....

Everything is just happening.

It's hard to say whether a situation is dangerous or whether we should just enjoy the show.

It feels like the Author brainfarted all over the plot.

There is no sense of structure, explanations sound like scientific papers and fights feel like playing Yu-Gi-Oh without knowing the rules.

Maybe all of that got lost in the translation??

Still I see the potential and I love the Cyberpunk/Magic vibe and setting of the world.

The Boss and the MC also have a cool relationship that I'd love to see more of.

But as of now I can't keep reading this.

Keeping my rating high to see if this gets better in the future. <<less
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WuBU
WuBU
Jul 29, 2024
Status: c33
This story is good, I would rate it a 3.5/5 if it didn't have potential to improve.

The pacing is great, the plot so far is pretty standard; protagonist transmigrated into a villain and is using the metaknowledge of the novel plot to change destiny. The protagonist is decently interesting, but falls into the drama-whinging pushover that complains over everything. Which means that it also falls into the standard trope where all the bystanders misunderstand the protagonist and swoon in awe over his every word and motion.

The action in the novel... more>> is somewhat lackluster, but not enough to really penalize their score. Though I do hope that the action scenes become better written as time goes on, as they currently have plenty of lead up and very little pay off.

There is some pretty solid plot development in 33 chapters, but the character development is far vaguer as the work plays into the drama and misunderstanding. Which means that their either has to be some concrete decisions and exposition in the next 30ish chapters, that will make the novel better as it increases its gravitas. Or, it will not have any concrete decisions and exposition and fall into being a novel-slog where the author just churns out the same arc over and over again with each iteration being more stale than the last.

But! I have hope! I think that this novel will continue to develop its characters and plot, moving up from the 3.5 star rating I want to give it now and achieving the 5 star rating I believe that it can be! <<less
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icerror
icerror
Oct 21, 2024
Status: c80
Pretty fun, but I do find the fact that everything's a misunderstanding a bit tiresome. Later chapter does introduce variable that MC can't flub his way around, but it's not enough to reinvigorate the trope.

Still, the world building is great and cohesive, likely due to the author's knowledge on the settings and its fusion. It made for a very pleasant reading experience when the trope isn't overused.
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nEoQuIcKsiLvEr
nEoQuIcKsiLv
Sep 17, 2024
Status: c28
Story is interesting with the background world being Cyberpunk with magic. While the same tropes like narrow-eyed villain, transmigrated into a game, misunderstandings, and using future knowledge is generic. With all the organizations and lore introduced make it deeply encompassing then add in some good action, it becomes fun. The world and how the characters interact in it makes the story go.
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CrisisCode
CrisisCode
Mar 30, 2025
Status: c159
The MC is part of an 'evil organisation' that plans to destroy the world's current order. That evil organisation deals with s*aves, drugs, etc. but all this is just a mean to an end as the president's (FMC) ultimate goal is to destroy the White Tower (one of the ten towers ruling the world) and disrupt this dystopian world where everyone suffer under powerful mages. On the day they create their organisation, the MC remembers that this is a novel's world and his boss is one of the villains, who... more>> self-destructs (with the whole city) in order to kill the protagonist. Because of that (and the fact that he doesn't care about that ultimate goal), he wants to quit. But he can't because, at the end of the day, he really cares about his boss and doesn't want to leave her be before finding his replacement, so he works diligently toward their goal...

This is a misunderstanding-based story, but let's be clear: the one who misunderstands things the most in that story is actually Orthes, the MC. Basically, though people often misinterpret his intentions, in the end they are more often than not understanding him better than he does himself.

Orthes doesn't know much about himself (he suddenly woke up in this world, with a strange power but no mana), but he thinks of himself as a pretty ordinary person with common sense, a friendly guy with a proper moral compass, who wishes nothing more than to have a peaceful lazy ordinary life but is a victim of circumstances, and who understands Carisia (FMC) perfectly and has no feelings for her. But he is nothing like that AT ALL: he is OP beyond measure (though not through 'ordinary' means, but he's basically the only one who doesn't fit in any of this world's categories), he has little to no common sense, people are terrified of him and he has no friends, he has no moral compass at all (he's not a sad*st or a pe*vert, he just doesn't care about means or consequences, and only has a bit of empathy for the ones who are close to him (a very small circle)), he brings chaos wherever he goes and is a total workaholic; also, he's the one setting everything in motion all by himself and, though it's true that they do know each other well, he misinterprets Carisia's intentions all the time when they are related to him and he doesn't even notice his very obvious feelings.

So, in the end, most of the time, people interpret the situation better than he does himself; they generally misinterpret his nature (because nobody knows) and affiliation (because he's a fraud), but not the implications of his involvement. And actual misunderstandings appear only when he wants people to misunderstand; which is basically his modus operandi, he's like the harbinger of chaos.

That's what makes this story so entertaining, because the MC is really funny and everything always get entangled so perfectly with him at the center, while he keeps thinking of himself as just an ordinary company worker going on field trips.

I should add that most characters in this story are memorable and most landscapes are to be destroyed. <<less
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RealSaMu
RealSaMu
Sep 21, 2024
Status: c84
Edit: I don't understand why it's only one star? I rated 5. I loved this novel. Also dead links. Your bullsh*t Koreans. Why don't you want to share

Review time. I binge read this and I just couldn't get enough. The novel is entertaining. The setting is a magical world but set in the year 2074, where advancements in magitech means that there things such as an astrally projected internet, robot factories handling mana storage devices, maglev trains with anti-magic barriers, etc. The story of the world itself is different than... more>> others, where the world just IS. Here it is explained how it became what it is because of the Mage King, a powerful magic user that ended the era of the gods and brought forth the age of magic, and then ascended into a higher plane of existence (except he didn't because he got stabbed in the back by his 10 disciples, which went on to found the 10 Commandments, attributes of magic stolen from the Mage King, and ruled the new era in his place). That's the setting, and here is the conflict, the MC is the enigmatic minion of the first-disc boss, who would face the returned Mage King, die, and jumpstart the end of the world. Suffice to say he has issues with the world ending <<less
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Novel Casanova
Novel Casano
Sep 28, 2024
Status: c69
There isn't much for me to say here that others haven't already said. I have a full review on the blog but here's the key points.

Very interesting world, a magic based cyberpunk world. Intriguing world history and story with a lot of mystery elements related to both the protagonist and story progression.

But the same misunderstanding being the key in every single story arc gets really repetitive. Also I dont know what that guy was thinking but just because other female characters are present doesn't mean this is a harem novel.... more>> There's arguably no romance in this at all despite the MC calling the boss as 'the one he chose'. The characters are mostly two dimensional just because they all have the samey view of the MC that seems never changing. <<less
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TheTwilightTrickster
TheTwilightT
Mar 15, 2025
Status: c187
First of all, This Novel is one of the best I have read. The synopsis is mostly a lie. It will not go how you think this will go. This is a Novel where Character dynamics, Character Power level and of course Misunderstandings.

Secondly, The characters. The MC has been here and has known his boss for a pretty long time. He isn't someone thrust into a situation he doesn't personally know. He is a Con Artist but he is genuinely competent. But his Conning reputation causes misunderstandings with everyone that... more>> isn't his boss.

Thirdly, The World building is absolutely amazing. I can give so much praise to it. But that would not be enough for me to describe it. However to give you an idea This world is Akin to The City (from Project Moon) but with magic instead of technology with a bit of Nasuverse and Bloodborne (These are approximations). Anyone who knows what The City is knows that anything anywhere close to that setting is bound to be great.
Spoiler

When Orthes picked Utis (Outis) as a Psoudonym My brain had a PM sleeper activation and it did not want to stop.

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That is all. <<less
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