A triage physician in a collapsing hospital keeps a private tally of every decision that went the other way. The tally is not for guilt; it is for accuracy.
Talk about The Arithmetic of Mercy as a whole. Chapter-specific talk belongs in the chapter thread.
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Sign inBest thing I've read on this site all year. The premise sounds gimmicky and then the execution is anything but.
This is the rare one where the protagonist being competent doesn't kill the tension. The obstacles just scale.
The translation quality here is genuinely a cut above. Footnotes where they're needed and nowhere else.
Agreed, though I'd argue the middle section is doing setup work you only appreciate later.
The worldbuilding does that thing where it explains almost nothing and somehow you still follow it perfectly.
Three volumes in and the pacing still hasn't dipped. Whoever is plotting this knows exactly how long to sit on a reveal.
You're going to love chapter 40 then.
Been saying this for weeks and getting downvoted for it, so vindication feels good.
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