he doesn't want to get involved with the story at first, nor does he cares what the author wants till it was revealed that if he does not help the story main character, the world will pretty much collapse.

MC avoid him at all cost once he realize the identity of his drinking buddy, lol.

(-) slow pace, the beginning feels incredibly boring.

(+) But it slowly catches up, and the world building is fairly well made.

(-) MC feels lackadaisical, pulled dumb moves despite trying to avoid attention, and probably gonna annoy you with his active whim and avoidance to the story.

(+) But he developed better along the way, accepted his inevitable role within the manuscript as he notes the different development ongoing, solving mysteries, and protecting the protagonist.

(-) it's difficult to identify who is speaking when there are more than two characters speaking.

(+) The friendships between the characters (especially MC and manuscript's Protag) is developing wonderfully. The mind games MC plays with the enemy is also very interesting.

Kleio is just like any other lazy shounen MC that ends up getting the attention of others. I normally like MCs like this, but its a little boring with how convenient everything comes to him (taking advantage of knowing the book and making bank off it) and catches everyone's attention as he says he doesn't like. Not to mention its just weird how he doesnt actually think like how a burnt-out 30 year old worker would. His only two personality traits are being lazy and being an alcoholic (he drinks wine as if its water and it comes up every paragraph). I dont think the author fleshed him out enough.

Shes supposed to be mc's senior by 5 years, but she's basically his lap dog/shuttle boy. While she's super capable and never incompetent, she has little personality outside of doing errands for MC. She acts like kleio's personal cheerleader, and she is in constant awe of everything kleio does. Its boring and she lacks personality outside of being money-hungry because of her unstable magic business.

So much plot development happens in every chapter, but theres not a lot of substance. An event-packed day can pass in a single paragraph. What im saying is, kleio went from being a level 2 wizard to a level 4 wizard within 2 weeks, but those two weeks were described in less than 2 paragraphs. For reference, theres only ~30 wizards on the continent that are level 4 or something like that, and only one level 8 wizard on the continent.

In the chapter I'm in (the lastest one at the time of this review) Kleio and one of the Angelium twin sided (actually more like Kleio use his name) with Melchior, and in opposition with Arthur's team. And it's not just a ploy, both Kleio and Arthur think that they're doing the right things.

At early chapters, Kleio sounds like your typical lazy, ironically self sacrificing MC. Well at the lastest chapter he still is self sacrificing, but now Kleio seems to believe that it's his role and destiny (besides his own willingness) to preserve and save Arthur and the world, even at the price of his own life. Which of course, his mindset doesn't go well with arthur. I personally like his character development, he might not be positively optimistic MC, but for me it makes him more likeable and give depth to his character. I also likes his relationship dynamics with Arthur, Celeste, Fran, and... Melchior, which are quite different to each others.

Here it's a novel's world. Author-nim (at least from what we know) has corrected it a few times (7/8). MC power is to re-write the novel, that is to say, the world he is in now. Author-nim has to agree though. Author-nim wants MC to be with his novel's MC. Here you can say it's OP yeah, but it's a decent story. The little plus is that novel's MC feels the effect of the world having been corrected a few times, and the characters of the novel's world are impacted by it too.