Binged up to chapter 41
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Roger mentioned early on that he had a friend fond of the Otis that's now dead, the sin 100% has to be related to that friend. My mini guess is that friend is "Rose", Neil's younger sibling that died before Otis had the Midas touch and what the manor was named after originally (Rose manor). When I first read it I felt Neil may have killed his younger sibling (the sin) as a price for the deal and named the manor after them out of guilt. I'm just a bit befuddled because Roger says he hates the Otis family but other than that I feel like my theory tracks (there's even the fact that his friend was endeared by the family).
Another theory I have but is pretty far fetched is that Roger's real name is Rose and he's actually the dead younger sibling who came back to life to make a deal with Neil Otis.. actually wait I'm cooking something, the roses take over people's bodies. what if Neil exposed his sibling to one of those weird roses, that's the Otis sin then Roger took over Rose (dead younger sibling) and that's why he's so obsessed with the Otis family!!
I love we never lose sight of his regression, that it isn't brushed past as just a plot device!!!! Yessss it affects him and isn't addressed just once like a check list. Yesssss it affects him on a stronger level that people around him notice his imposter syndrome or inferior complex that carried on from his past life. YESS YESS YESSSSS
A warning for the upcoming rant:
Sometimes I will read manhwas that forget their beginning setting (like a reincarnation or regression) that in the middle they just add stuff that goes completely against what happened or doesn't make sense! I've seen characters act as if they've lived in the world their entire lives and it was a limited game they reincarnated into. Sometimes the writer will suddenly add in later that the reincarnation's first life was in the isekaid world so its regression + reincarnation..It was shocking once and completely lame after that. Such a lazy & messy move. The worst offence I've seen was a character plagiarising an invention from their past life from the modern world (so reincarnation) when their first episode began with a time regression and had never mentioned the modern world up until then (iirc)!!! I had to go back and recheck I hadn't remembered wrong and was so dumbfounded I stopped reading it entirely, pmo!!
After that obsession, I'm reading Sera and Lalit as toxic yuri but my main pairing is still Lalit and Eva. The brother is cute but he's kinda just in the corner for me
I was just rereading this and in one of the panel, Eugene looks like he's doing the 67 motion