This is one of my fav series of the genre, and as someone who read more than halfway into the novel, well I personally dont mind "harem" or fanservice writing because in my opinion even with those elements present each female character still has a well written story that is able to make them stand out beyond the MC, and other than the female charas there are also quite a few Male characters who receive a lot of focus so its whatever to me
But for anyone curious, over time most if not all his close allies begin to find out that he is Kyle, so not only does Leo never see the girls of the present as someone his equal, now the girls also realise that he doesnt just talk like an old man but is one
The true romance elements are only ever present with Luna and Lysinas, within those 2 Luna is my personal favorite and who I think actually receives the most "love back" from Leo, but Lysinas is also a fan favorite and has quite a few scenes so, if its ever a harem I guess its not impossible it would be these 3 together. I honestly personally dont even consider any 3rd option a possibility and so far neither does Leo soooo
Honestly I also thought maybe he is the future self but it just feels odd to me because after he shoots the guy he goes "so you reacted differently from me after all", referring to MC taking the bullet but obviously its because MC wanted to test his healing so it wasnt out of pure good will either
But anyways the idea is that if he is the future, he would be one that didnt experience the "present" in other words a form of his consciousness being pulled into the game in 2 different age groups and locations at once, so they coexist but never experienced each others lives
My other real theory is that thats not him, but his "player account", for a while now its been mentioned as a player he has Unicorn Zone as his base, and also the other guy seems to look exactly like his player account while as he is more of a younger self of his real self. So I think thats his player account that came to be from his actions but isnt entirely him
Just a guess
Imo, he's the npc made based in dopamine. Yk the guy in the knife zone? He hated dopamine because of this npc, he was super op because he's based on dopamine character in game so it's super difficult to defeat him. If I'm not wrong, there should be others copy's like that but dopamine defeated all of them.
It's definitely because he was based in how dopamine behaved in the game and not in his actual personality, so he's basically based on data and not on dopamine himself so it's not actually accurate and that's why that guy says "i thought we were the same" or something like that and that's also why he knows basically everything, because so does dopamine.
Also, idk but maybe that's why he also has access to the chat, because since he's basically dopamine in game, if he cleared all the zones and got rewards so would his copy but since that's data, the copy would have access to them sooner than dopamine himself. That would explain the chat thingy.
And since the NPCs are a part of the game itself, it would explain why that guy was already settled and not suffered the reset along with the other players.
Exactly!!!!! Also, I think him “testing” & checking up on real dopamine is because the AI dopamine is extremely intelligent like dopamine is, and he recognized himself to be AI.(And decided to roll with it?) AI dopamine was comparing how his real self & in-game self act and react.
He’s in the unicorn zone because that’s dopamine’s known preference. It was mentioned that if real dopamine chose unicorn, like he usually does, he’d be undefeatable. So of course AI dopamine would choose unicorn. He isn’t a kid because he isn’t a real player, just the ai from the game. Or maybe he is real in-a-sense now? I dunno. There’s still questions but this makes the most sense rn. Someone also suggested it was his mom.