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The Witch and the Mercenary
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2021
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238 Chapters + 4 Extras (Ongoing)
5 LN Volumes (Ongoing)
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Weekly Rank: #2454
Monthly Rank: #1130
All Time Rank: #4923
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“Witches” ―――the only remaining unknown entity on a continent where demonic beasts and sorcery have all but disappeared.

Jig, a mercenary, has set out to defeat one of these beings that have been feared since ancient times. After a fierce battle, he narrowly emerges victorious, but at the same time, he loses any reason for killing the witch. As he is about to leave without finishing the job, the witch makes a request of him. She desires a life free from being pursued by anyone.

After struggling over it, the mercenary decides to accept the request. He feels that it would be difficult to fulfill the request on this continent, where people have a strong aversion to witches, so he makes the decision to embark on a voyage to an alien continent that has been known to exist for some time but has only become accessible in recent years.

Associated Names
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Majo to Yōhei
Witch and Mercenary
魔女と傭兵
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Mr.slowly
Mr.slowly rated it
May 29, 2023
Status: c24
Ok, just finished up reading until the latest chapter, which I think is 39. I must say, and I apologize to the previous reviewers, but those are two of the most skewed and almost embarrassing reviews I've run across and bring down the quality of the site in my opinion. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course, but those sorts of negative things are just a shame to see whenever.

Having gotten that out of the way - I will say that I found this to be a very enjoyable... more>> first novel from this author. I did not read the story in the original language, so I cannot comment on that - but I thought the writing was very good, and if the flow was all the work of the translator, then I would say the duo is excellent. There were perhaps 3-4 rushed spots in the plot, mostly at the beginning, but aside from some board of experts grading thesis-level papers, this is absolutely an enjoyable read. Why exactly is everyone so uptight with free work being shared? I'll never understand. As the story unfolded, I definitely got more and more into things and am enjoying the character and world developments very much. The ML and the FL are slowly starting to get in sync and I personally would like to hear more about their adventure. This is pretty early in the story to break things down too much so I'll leave it pretty vague, but I would definitely recommend giving this a try and see what you feel. <<less
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default88
default88 rated it
February 24, 2024
Status: c106
Fun story.

No harem at all. I don't see what the other reviewer is complaining about. Sure, there are other female characters in the story, but that doesn't make it a harem. They are side characters at best and there is no romance at all between them and the MC. Hell, the MC was about to emotionlessly mu*der them at first.

Some amount of worldbuulding has happened but not all that much.

Reading the interactions of the witch and the merc is a lot of fun.

Looking forward to more of this.
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Nightbringer
Nightbringer rated it
February 3, 2023
Status: c48
I went in with severe pessimism since I hate mercenary/bodyguard/butler/assassin/soldier protagonists with passion (narrows it down for me quite a bit hey? :)) but at the beginning I was pleasantly surprised it was a decent read thought out author wasn't just spouting nonsense characters weren't completely one-dimensional the female character wasn't extremely annoying the male character wasn't completely spineless and there were some darker themes as well. Then there was a bit too much focus on racism bad which I find a bit tiring at this point but whatever... the... more>> breaking point was the last chapter I read
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where the protagonist completely folded like a bit*h in a situation where he wasn't at fault in the slightest in front of the witch just for "comedic" purpose.

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I read way too many japanese novels to bother reading any further. It has harem elements and that doesn't help either.

The translation is good. <<less
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magthefma4
magthefma4 rated it
November 24, 2024
Status: c89
This has got to be the most "whatever" story I have experienced. It's not bad, but also got nothing good. Which is kinda impressive to be honest.

The premise:

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A witch wants to start a new life in a distant continent so she hires a merc to accompany her.

The witch is the less focused one so let's talk about her first. She has lived for a very long time as a secluded witch so she is very powerful and merciless to her enemies, but because of that many things are new to her and she can be excited like a countrygirl too.

The merc guy is the protagonist. He's insanely strong. And since he's a merc he has loose morals, he will take on any job as long as it pays and doesn't brand him an enemy of the state.

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The problem with having a main character that is both super OP and also psychopathic is that they can have neither physical struggle nor emotional conflict. What can be worse than that you ask? Having BOTH MCs who fit that description. Things happen in this story, but they don't hold weight. Nothing is particularly fleshed out, so nothing sticks. The MCs don't really care much about anything, so neither do I.

For the first 90 chapters, the author pretty much used one simple excuse to build up 3 conflicts and progressed the story:

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Some people accused maleMC of something he did not do. But either because they refused to listen or because he refused to explain himself, a fight breaks out. Then maleMC won, his enemies eventually found out that he was indeed innocent. So they regretted their rashness and tried to repay him for their transgressions.

Exhibit #1: "Oh, I see you just walked out of a store affiliated with my enemy mafia clan. That definitely means you are a member of that clan, and thus my enemy. I will kill you."

Result: Defeated and realized he was just an outsider. Paid him a lot of money for compensation.

Exhibit #2: "My old comrade in arms, why are you hanging out with a witch? Could it be that you have been bewitched by her? I have no choice but to kill you."

Result: Killed. I don't even count this as one of the major conflicts since bro literally just showed up to die and added nothing to the story as far as I'm concerned.

Exhibit #3: "My adventurer clan's members were attacked by someone that looked like you. Care to tell us what you were doing yesterday? No? Okay we will beat it out of you."

Result: Defeated and realized he wasn't the culprit. Paid him a lot of money for compensation.

Exhibit #4: "We are investigating the mafia's drug trafficking and you are a suspect. Please come with us quietly. No? Okay we will arrest you by force."

Result: Defeated and realizd he had nothing to do with it. Paid him a lot of money for compensation.

The MC has no morals so he has no real enemies, all the ones I listed were just people doing their jobs (albeit poorly). No one has any real beef with him, and thus no fights are satisfying at all.

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At around chapter 120, the MCs are fighting... a church of racists. But it's not because they hate racism, no, they can't give a damn about that. The racists attacked them first because they got too cozy with a demihuman, so now the MCs have to slaughter them all in retaliation.

I called this story impressive because the author managed to turn a premise as potentially interesting as the life of an adventurer into something ridiculously boring and mediocre. It really feels like the MCs are having as much excitement as working in a 9-5 job, with their enemies causing them as much emotional distress as annoying irl customers/colleagues. The other characters are hardly worth remembering, as most of whom are not very competent - the byproduct of having two OP MCs. World building is also shallow.

Finally, is there harem in this story? In the traditional sense, no. No female characters including the female MC shows real romantic interest for the male MC so far. But there are certainly many girls that have their eyes on him and they are also just as bland, so that's that. <<less
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Insaniah
Insaniah rated it
August 18, 2024
Status: c140
So I read this for a very specific reason. Witches. And the witch in this story delivered. It's the exact type of witch I like. The one that's a different species from humans and doesn't consider humans as people. If you like witches as well, Siasha here won't disappoint you.

The story itself was a pleasant surprise. It explained a lot of settings other authors would just state and assume the reader can fill in the blanks based on tropes in ways I quite liked. For example the author explained the... more>> reason adventurers existed in the new continent and the effects of their existence. Interesting stuff, I appreciated it

The story plays out mostly in Jig's perspective. Which is usually more serious in tone. It works well when the author sometimes insert some s*upid joke which works only because of it being juxtaposed to the seriousness of everything else. The author sometimes writes in Siasha's perspective as well, which is generally more lighthearted in tone. Although, the contents are just as serious. You can choose to realise that, and maybe find yourself afraid of Siasha; or just enjoy this witch going about things her way.

Conclusion, the coldness of the MCs when dealing with enemies goes hard. Thanks to the translator and of course the author for the amazing work! Looking forward to more <<less
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AJS90
AJS90 rated it
April 2, 2023
Status: c10
(First of all, I’m only rating the original Japanese WN here. I didn’t read the translation; therefore I have no mean to rate it.)

Honestly, this was probably one of the worst written WN I’ve read in a while. The utter lack of punctuation was confusing, to say the least. I frankly doubt the author even knew about the existence of punctuation or its proper usage to begin with in the early chapters.

Further, the structure and pacing is all over the place. The number of time skips in places... more>> where the author could have introduced characters, and developed their personalities and relationships in just the first 10 chapters had me staggering.

The “theme” of this story also appears to become redundant all too fast. Starting out as a story where a witch means to escape her life in constant hiding, seeking a place to live in peace and asking our MC, the mercenary, for guidance and support on the journey to reach said place.

At this point I would have thought we’d get a Spice and Wolf style journey centered story. But what it turned out to be was a superficial collection of time skips until they reached supposed safe haven, only for the story to likely (stopped caring at this point) turn into your average “adventurer quest”.

Taking a quick glance at the translation, the translator at least alleviated some of the problems of the raw script (doubling as the author’s editor for anyone only reading the English translation, I dare say).

But as I’d prefer to keep with the original, I can only judge this as a bland, badly written WN, not worth the hassle to spend any more time on. <<less
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