Yeah, I had pretty much the same reaction somewhere around that point too. The Demon and its attendant theme of “the most dAnGeROuS wishes aren’t self serving and cruel ones, but a desire to improve things and help others” are 100% the worst part of the worldbuilding and in fact are so bad that they kind of retroactively ruin all the cool ideas that came before imo.
![[Dungeon Meishi/Delicious in Dungeon manga spoilers] I almost don't want to finish reading this now. It's going to end up being some lib-shit message about not changing the status quo, isn't it?](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/7e5de795-9be0-4897-8599-6ec0de69b832.jpeg){kind=link}
Yeah, I had pretty much the same reaction somewhere around that point too. The Demon and its attendant theme of “the most dAnGeROuS wishes aren’t self serving and cruel ones, but a desire to improve things and help others” are 100% the worst part of the worldbuilding and in fact are so bad that they kind of retroactively ruin all the cool ideas that came before imo.