The novel is good, the writing is excellent, the idea is a little original, you can see that the author has talent, but it is very difficult to continue reading, it seems a Chinese novel but better writing, in every chapter the author finds It is a way of humiliating the protagonist, his family or his acquaintances. First he was humiliated by two young men, then by his father, then he and his family were humiliated all over the village, then the family was humiliated by a band of villains, then he was humiliated by the city guards, and now (in part that I am) he and his lord were humiliated by another samurai ... It's a very good novel, but as I said: It looks like a Chinese novel, only with a talented author.