
Novel readers tell me why the chasing arc ain’t that long?? (picture that one stan twt gif of a judge facing forward confused)

He lives in Argentina for a long time. Gets to know a local family, the daughter 'falls in love' with him (she's a child it's her first crush) the son is a smart kid who is going to be a Esper in future. The boy is the only Esper in the village and his ability hasn't manifested yet. When it does he gets recruited by 2nd MLs guild and MC gets the boy to promise not to mention him when he goes. Then the mutated gates start to open in Argentina and the village and some other areas get evacuated. When he's on his way to be evacuated he hears all that stuff about ML and that he's going into one of the gates. He goes there and sees him collapse and is caught by 2nd ML who makes the same offer as he did at the end of the most recent chapter. I think in the novel this section covers about a year. These are just the highlights. They also left out quite a bit about what happened while MC was at that other guild and he and the other guide actually get to be friends that's why he risks himself being hurt to yell out to MC to run away and hide like he's dead. The section where he runs away the first time is also longer in the novel though not a lot happens in that bit, but way more time passes then shown here, like months where this makes it look like days.

The daughter isn't a child, she is 14 years old in the novel, but she behaves like a 5 year old. Her character is incredibly creepy and frankly I'm so glad we don't get to experience her full color. I also suspect that outside of the obvious reasons like artist's health or not being popular enough a comics, they cut the Banos arc due to the mental daughter.

In a legal sense? The term is actually "an infant". In psychological and biological development? 14 yo is defo not "a child". Let's not infantilise teenagers like the author did in the novel.
The way the sister was depicted in the novel - with all the "I'm gonna marry him", I was sure she was 5 at most. Frankly, she was depicted as having really heavy psychological issues or, frankly, as a retard who was never told to behave.

A child and an infant are not the same thing. Saying teens are children is not 'infantilizing'. Them In a legal, psychological and biological sense teens are children. Their brains are not fully developed, neither is their emotional and social abilities. At 14 people have much lower emotional control as the part of the brain for impulse control does not fully develop until around the age of 25. I am not 'infantilizing' but a 14 year old child can not understand the difference between what they feel if someone is attractive, kind, and pays them some attention and love. This is just a fact. I'm sorry that you're taking this personally. I am certainly not saying that young people are totally incapable of depth of feeling, but at 14 every emotions feels like a big deal, when they're not. Admittedly it may be a bit difficult for me to seen anyone younger than my actual children as being anything other than a child. I can tell you one thing for sure the relationships you make in high school very rarely last. I don't think I've spoken to anyone I attended high school with in more than 20 years. Over the course of a life time, those few years will seem like nothing. After all the ages of 13 to 19 are only 6 years, and when you look back in future the 50 other years encompass more of your life (or my life specifically because of my age) and those feeling will actually seem embarrassing, small and petty compared to what you feel later in life.

Why do you think I'm taking it personally? How did you come to that conclusion? What's wrong with you?
I only think that girl character from a mediocre novel was so infantilised by the author, who wrote her as a 14 yo who behaves like a 3 year old that she pretty much was portrayed as having hard-core mental issues. And that this character is good enough reason to cut whole arc from happening.
What's personal about that?
Oh and "infant" is legal term for people under 18. Not "child". "Child" is used in relationship context in law.
THANK GOD JONAK IS IMMORTAL! I was scared when I started this that this will end uo badly with our bottom dying from old age