All hail the bureaucracy. Impressions: Let me spare you this episode. Adventurers join clans. This dude is the head of a clan of his childhood friends who are all super strong, but he is not. It somehow takes this episode approximately 16 minutes to cover those two sentences because people keep having to yell […]
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