Because Janitor-san Is Not a Hero

[reinastar]

How did the mc meet her sasuke Onee-Sama~

[coded321]

Spoiler for FAQ:

1.Is the MC OP?
He's strong and capable, but not OP. There are many others who are much stronger than he is

2.Is this a harem?
There are some girls who may be interested, but otherwise no.

3.Is there snusnu?
No

I made this based on what I read from the thread. Correct me if i'm wrong.
Also how were his gifts stolen anyway?

[sasuke706]

^While they were meeting with the god-being thing, their abilities were in physical form. Or more like everyone there was in a spiritual form.
All Hayato had to do was take the sword (ability) from Kurando's hand and complete the summoning to the...ground? Come to think of it, I don't actually know the planet's name. Oh well.
He still got the hero blessing like everyone else, which is basically can talk/read in every language and a small growth boost.

And there is kind of snusnu. He does it with the blonde chick on the fourth cover.
There's essentially no romance, at least so far. But yeah there have been a couple of girls that seem mildly interested but it never goes anywhere before the protagonist leaves the area.

Originally Posted by reinastar

How did the mc meet her sasuke Onee-Sama~

When Kurando first gets summoned, he's in the middle of snowy mountain in the middle of fuck-nowhere.
There he notices a giant snow leopard watching him with a pitying gaze (because Kurando was struggling just to walk through all the snow).
Eventually the snow leopard forces her way into the cave he was staying at and occupies a portion of it. Kurando just deals with it and more or less ignores her.
Eventually she gives birth to Yukishiro and Mother Leopard forces Kurando to meet newborn Yukishiro, and the day after birth hunters come by and hunt Yukishiro's mother, but don't notice Kurando or Yukishiro through the snow storm.

So Kurando raises the not even 2-day old baby snow leopard he names Yukishiro and they've been together since.

[reinastar]

I wonder if the hero will steal the mc's pet if it was op you said that the hero have stealing powers right sasuke Onee-Sama~

[sasuke706]

He doesn't have stealing powers. He was just able to steal the protagonist's at the time; anyone could have done stealing at that time, including the protagonist.

There is another hero who apparently has a monster taming ability, but he's shown up for all of 2 lines and hasn't been important in the least.

[reinastar]

Maybe that tamer will steal the mc pet right sasuke Onee-Sama~

[sasuke706]

I don't know enough about the ability and how it works to judge that. All I know is he has a monster related ability and has pets like the protagonist does.
What's with the suddenly wanting Yukishiro to get NTR'd?

[reinastar]

Onee-Sama I don't lik ntr but there is posibility that it might happen correct sasuke Onee-Sama~

[jmcu17]

Originally Posted by sasuke706

Spoiler for Spoiler because wall of text:

It's not like he hasn't taken action, it's taking too much action is a bad thing.
From the MC's point of view, Hayato is not only way stronger than him, he has way stronger political connections than some nobody.
The MC's main goal is unsurprisingly to not be dead. So of course he doesn't directly pick a fight with him, but it's not like he's forgiven the guy either.
And if Kurando were to oppose the hero, who has two years of credibility of being a hero when the MC has no credibility at all, would be to announce that everyone's favorite tool (hero) has two abilities simply because he stole another person's. This also raises the question of has his two years of saving lives overwritten his crime of stealing? Most people would say yes, not only morally but because Hayato is a useful tool for dealing with problems.
If he were to take the political route, this would likely screw over his own life, which is getting his priorities backward. Because you have to provide proof he took it which means making himself public to everyone, which means making a lot more enemies than he probably would allies. Not to mention to any new allies he'd just be a disposable tool to deal with Hayato.
It's mentioned in story that some political powers would probably love to see the hero fall and would love an excuse to make it happen, but that doesn't mean Kurando would get a good end out of it either.
You say kill the hero, but the MC doesn't have any methods to do this. He's strong for a hunter but too weak to fight Hayato. The MC also isn't the type to drag random people he doesn't know into fights either, nor would he want to drag people he knows into shit that isn't their problem.
Also, the sword didn't choose anything—the personality it had during the explanation where Kurando was comparing it to a yandere is just that, Kurando's imagination. It says right in the narrative that the sword isn't alive nor does it have a personality.
You're acting like there's some great option he has to get revenge when there simply isn't. It also raises the question of then is revenge even worth it, which is the theme to arc 2 and 3. Turns out it isn't.

And he is making his way in the world with the power he has. The only use his power has is as a hunter. And believe it or not, being a really good hunter isn't going to suddenly get him a high political standpoint, especially because even if he goes out, Hayato's standing among Hunters will always be higher anyway.
Hell, the only way another hero had to increase his influence was to marry a countess(?) or something, which is on top of the default hero influence.
The only real political ally Kurando has is a couple heroes and the head a fairly influential religious group, which have all promised to essentially screw over Hayato if he breaks his promise of not staying in jail, which he did. Though this has yet to show results. So it's not Hayato hasn't gotten rewarded, it's simply he hasn't gotten rewarded yet.

You want the MC to tackle his problems head on, but how? This novel takes it in a realistic direction.
He can't go around punching trees to get super strong. Even if he could get strong, getting strong isn't going to just magically make him a king.
The "cheats" he has are basically just something to give him as slight edge compared to others — there are plenty of natives in story clearly stronger than Kurando in a fight. The only Jackpot he has is Yukishiro, who still probably isn't stronger than Hayato.
Him taking the only logical option makes him timid? All getting revenge or sticking around in the kingdom that summoned the heroes would do is cause more problems and solve none of them.
While I would have to consider the MC depressed at times, I can hardly call him timid.

The novel not being your standard ORE TUEEE, revenge story or King's Path novel honestly shouldn't be counted as being negative points.

Thanks for the spoilers. I didn't know any of that, but the story still sounds difficult to read.

[Namorax]

Do we ever learn why the "hero" did such a move? (Stealing the sword)

Since it was mentioned that he was the son of the principal, I assume he was a random "I was born better than you" prick, but did the later chapters mentionsome insight into his character? Or is he just a 2-dimensional antagonist with little to no growth unless it is required by the plot?

[sasuke706]

He originally was a selfish nobody and stole it because he wanted to be better than others.
He later apparently awoken to the good guy in him and began to enjoy helping people. He feels sorry about stealing it but doesn't regret it because it was useful in helping people.
He's still selfish, just in a different way and justifies anything wrong he or his companions might do as their previous achievements should be enough to make up for it. For example, he apologized to the protagonist but couldn't think of any way to make up for it at all.
He's still overall a better person than he was when he stole it.

It's hard to even call him an antagonist since the protagonist just wants nothing to do with him and he doesn't want to be involved with the protagonist either.

[Breimn]

I still say that a certain thief's hand should be cut off.

[obnuchious]

can I ask for more details about the bird brain lass and her clan/tribe's current predicament?

[sasuke706]

Originally Posted by obnuchious

can I ask for more details about the bird brain lass and her clan/tribe's current predicament?

Spoiler for Probably shouldn't read if you want to read the story on your own:

The woman on the cover of the volume 3 was Kurando's slave he got for a while on a tropical island.
The reason he got her is because she wanted revenge and he wanted to know where revenge led and if it was worth it.
So he helps her get revenge on her ex-husband's family for killing her son.
She fails miserably and Kurando basically takes all of it over for her and kills the family head and her former husband. He also made the current ruler at the time as part of the duel agreements that their family are to not fuck with him afterwards. The king agrees because he wanted an excuse to deal with the rotten family anyway.
After Kurando leaves the country, they apparently try shit so the ruler purges them, which Famf—being her family—later finds out after being away on her own and has to flee the country and seek shelter with a female-oriented religion.
She blames everything on Kurando, though.

Spoiler for The end of Famf's quest line:

Famf eventually finds Kurando in a random town by coincidence in the next arc and she impulsively challenges him to a duel, and he accepts and whoops her ass.
However, before he could finish her off, her guardian and the religious organization she joined (that Kurando was also an honorary member of despite being male at the time for his exploits in the first arc) get in his way.
As compensation, he has them make a contract to keep her under control and if they can't, they owe him a shitload of reparations.

Now comes in the heroine in the third arc, the blonde prostitute on the cover.
She's doing her line of work because she wants to help her home town by convincing hunters when she can to go there and do some quests due to her home town not having a hunter's guild established.
So Kurando chances upon her and agrees to it because why not. So he goes do that stuff and eventually it leads to him escorting her back to her home town that she hasn't been to for years, since there's going to be a festival and her old friends wanted to see her again. So Kurando more or less takes her out on a kind of date which was also the first time they've really done anything outside of 'business'.
There, a terrorist attack happens and the town gets pretty chaotic, but it gets under control pretty fast.
However, Famf, also being there, takes advantage of the chaos and attacks Kurando—through the blonde woman, stabbing her through and engulfing her in fire, killing her instantly.
Kurando gets off scathed because the woman—unknowingly and unwillingly—took the brunt of it and Kurando specializes in defense, always having a couple barriers up.
Our protagonist gets usually and understandably enraged, but sticks to reason and again challenges the birdbrain to a duel, where she accepts.
He ends up killing her.

The prostitute's death is probably the darkest development in the story so far and it's hard to say the reader even really had a chance to get attached to her.
Still felt pretty bad, though.

Hope you didn't like Famf or something.
It's also what I meant by revenge being a theme of these 2 arcs.

That's everything about her in a nutshell. Not really much more to add even if I wanted to.

[obnuchious]

wow . . . she certainly is a f*cking bird brain . . . didn't learn the first time so she deserved what she got . . .

does her guardians knew what happened to her?

shame for what happened to the blonde . . was hoping she would be a some sort of anchor for MC . . .

[sasuke706]

Yeah, her guardians know. Happened in the middle of town with more or less everyone watching. It's why he chose the form of a duel instead of seeking legal action; he wanted to put an end to it himself.
Her actions were also political cause for concern for the religious group sheltering her, but it got covered up by a well–intentioned third-party.
Covering it up leaves a bitter taste for the protagonist, but understands why it was necessary and doesn't fight it.

[obnuchious]

the group is a peaceful one but still harbored a 'bird brained' brat that goes against their teaching . . . something like that?

[sasuke706]

It's more like they give them the benefit of the doubt and offer them more chances.

Spoiler for :

As I said earlier, Kurando becomes an honorary member due to his exploits in volume 1.
This religious group takes in women who have nowhere to go and basically have them wander around helping other women, and being hunters.
Now, what happens if they can't help (or in Bird's case, reform) some of the girls?
This actually gets showed. In the Famf Arc, she actually has a fellow bird friend who gets really sympathetic to her cause since she's under similar circumstances, and like Famf she places everything's fault on Kurando. The blonde woman's death to her was 'unfortunate' but she prioritizes Famf regardless.
The only reason she didn't interfere in Kurando's duel with Famf was because Yukishiro was physically preventing her from doing so.

She gets taken back to the head temple to reflect on her actions (punishment) but she decides to sneak out because she wants to avenge Famf.
However, the head priestess (the one who gave Kurando is honorary status) finds her out, and all things the Bird attacks her to get out.
So she burns Bird to death and explains to Akari (who joined the group after the events in the first arc) that this sometimes is a duty of their group as well.

So in short Kurando basically did to Famf what was likely going to get done anyway.
Though Kurando abandoned his honorary membership status during the Famf stuff because it was beginning to be to big of a pain in the ass for him.

[obnuchious]

even though he had abandoned it, she still honors him as such?\

and interesting to know that Akari became a member of that group . . .

regarding the students . . any news/info about the others? ...besides Akari, Hero(lol)-boy, jerk-poisoned-boy...

[sasuke706]

Well, the head priestess is the one who gave it to him, and another priestess is more or less the one that took it away.
She still honors him but the whole point of being an honorary member was to use it as political backing that he simply didn't have, but now that's gone.
The only thing he has vouching for him now is his Hunter rank and history as a Hunter.

He doesn't fuss over Hunter rank at all, by the way.
In fact, the bat lady on the volume 3 cover that he made into a hunter and trained as such actually becomes a higher hunter rank than him. Granted she got a special promotion due to an emergency quest and Kurando's been doing the normal path.

There's plenty of news about other students.

Spoiler for :

The hero party has 3 students including the hero. One manipulates lightning and one's your average samurai woman.
There's Akari's friend who has an ability that lets her work as a judge. She's actually the one who arranged the hero going to prison.
There's another student Kurando randomly meets that can freely transform his appearance into other people's. He was a pretty nice guy.
There's a guy who could manipulate two giant invisible hands that Kurando killed because he was an ass.
There's the 3 other staff members, one trying to do a feminist reform or some shit, another teacher is doing his damndested to help the students and his only ability is basically track people he's marked. The last staff member is apparently an asshole and going to show up soon, though.
And there's the one guy with a monster tamer ability that was shown to have a baby mutant wyvern (Kurando also has a mutant baby wyvern for contrast, as seen in the volume 4 illustrations).

In the latest arc there's 3 more students as well.
One is spreading modern knowledge around and I'm not sure what his ability is.
Another has an ability to copy other student's ability, although with a nerfed version.
The third was good at calculating or something. None of these three are fighters.

I think that's all of them that have been introduced? Still like 70 to go.