The last part of the book is the only part I actually enjoyed.
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But Itsuki never thought much of Rishia, and his curse series has even further stopped up his ears, so their actual battle is an amusing sequence of "Hey, the person fighting you is over here!" I am disappointed the book never confirms which curse series he unlocked, as several guesses are offered but none confirmed. Rishia's been overcoming all her past limitations, and now it's time to go back to the person who both inspired her and rejected her. Itsuki's confrontation with Rishia was also decent. Although it's not the same case as Filo, Gaelion ends up as someone else Naofumi can talk to, and one of the few people around him who isn't interested in jumping him. I appreciate that Naofumi actually chooses a male, since the cast has been way too imbalanced towards the girls for too long. I liked that Naofumi finally got a dragon and decided to raise it, although predictably things go sideways before too long. I don't actually mind Naofumi personally seeing this in a wrongheaded way, as that's part of his morally grey character, but it's a bit too much when everyone else decides to worship his decisions. I'm shocked none of them have any issues with him bossing them around, even if he is telling them the fastest way to get stronger.
This isn't helped by all his slaves enthusiastically supporting him as their owner. In a related note, Naofumi's attitude about slavery is getting worse. When I find myself wishing that something would just come along and kill them off, they're an active detriment to the story. The whole harem aspect isn't even done well, as pretty much all the girls except Raphtalia have a single character trait they beat to death and virtually nothing else (it doesn't help that they're all very much underage). Alta lost all my sympathy after she got healed and started being a creeper on Naofumi, but she's finally gotten so bad that Naofumi is jumping at the chance to run away in a manner she can't follow. I hate this segment of the village life even more than the previous book. It's more like two and a half shorter stories bludgeoned into a novel-length book. The plot has three separate main conflicts going on, and they aren't tied together very smoothly. News of Itsuki fighting in the Coliseum, though, forces him to detour to try to recruit the last Hero by whatever means necessary. Between raising a gifted dragon egg and dealing with the crazy girls after him, he doesn't have a lot of time to rest. Naofumi is still working on building up the village.