How not to use healing magic (How not to devise a plot)

 What I don't understand and probably will never get used to about isekai manga is how quickly, with how much ease the character accepts that he's in another world, like "Oh, it's Wednesday so I must be in another world that looks a lot like if a teenager that failed History mixed his poor conceptions about medieval ages with a half-baked summary on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and some generic fantasy MMORPG"

In who's mind some girl, warrior or renowned, can just burst unannounced into the throne room and kidnap an attendant against the explicit command of the king, and the paladins, the king's escort, the royal guards (hell, anyone really!) won't do a thing because (and here's the most hilarious part) they are too scared of this girl to stop her.

The scene in question


Now that's security you can set your watch to! Foolproof, dependable, reliable, and trustworthy! 

And the website that suggested this... Thing yelled at the four winds about how creative and original the plot was. I missed that part. Perhaps, the originality relied on some aspect that escaped my narrow, skeptical eyes.

 Perhaps, the magic circle that summons the characters was drawn in a different pattern than the other hundred summoning circles in other isekai manga. Perhaps the students attended different high schools than the other thousand high school students in other isekai manga. Maybe, the kingdom that summons them is more defenseless or more desperate than the other million defenseless, desperate kingdoms in other isekai mangas. It could be that the grass is shaded in a different color. 

Surely, since they take this as a challenge, the demon lord has bigger boobs or a rounder ass than the other million demon lords that threaten the world in other isekai mangas. I don't know what the fuss is about. There's nothing here.

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