Light spoilers around Chapter 48 and later official world-building.
Around Chapter 48, Chi-Fuyo becomes a very strange combination.
The art gets much easier on the eyes. Margaret can look almost like a different character. The comedy is still capable of going “Sexy! Aaaah!” and calling someone literally “Assassination Mother.” Meanwhile, the world-building keeps getting more serious.
The drawings evolve. The setting gets heavier. The jokes remain feral.
And that creates one obvious question:
Why are people treating Rain’s enhancement magic like something that should stay around +5?
1. The jokes stay ridiculous while the setting becomes serious
The official anime profile describes Rain as an enhancement mage who can assign “enhancement points” to weapons, armor and other objects, then remove those enhancements whenever he chooses.[1]
The same official material says this world contains intelligent, dangerous monsters, while overreliance on modern technology weakens human magic.[1]
Later, Kodansha’s official summary for Volume 14 says the dragon race once pushed humanity close to extinction.[2]
That changes the scale of the problem.
Rain is no longer just “the guy who improves swords.”
If humanity faces recurring existential monsters, his ability starts looking like military infrastructure.
That makes a low flat cap feel much stranger.
2. The real question is not whether +5 helps. It is whether a flat +5 cap makes sense
A low, broad enhancement policy can be reasonable.
Enhancement points are not presented as infinite. Rain needs points for himself. Putting everything into one person all the time would be reckless.
But a fixed low ceiling has a different problem.
Suppose +5 slightly raises mission success. +50 sharply reduces casualties. +500 lets three elite fighters do the work of ten.
If the return grows that way, equal distribution may be fair but strategically weak.
Against monsters, the goal is not equal enhancement.
The goal is:
give people enough power to survive and win.
3. Rain is less like a blacksmith and more like mobile national infrastructure
Official summaries establish that Rain reclaimed the huge pool of points he had placed across his former guild’s equipment and concentrated them into his own gear, producing a +10000 copper sword with absurd power.[3][4]
That means his ability is not merely about making individual items better.
It can move combat power from one place to another.
In peacetime, spread points across many adventurers. When a major monster appears, reclaim them. Concentrate them on a strike team. After the fight, redistribute them elsewhere.
That is not a weapon shop.
That is a movable defense budget.
From a government’s perspective, Rain is not just one strong adventurer.
He is a national defense system that can walk away.
So if the reason for staying at +5 is cost, the natural reader reaction is:
Government. Pay the bill.
4. But “give everyone +10000” does not work either
This part matters.
Rain can create a +10000 weapon, but that does not mean he can give +10000 to an entire country.
The official premise presents the +10000 weapon as the result of reclaiming a huge amount of points previously spread over many pieces of equipment and concentrating them into one place.[3][4]
So the points behave like a limited resource, not a free infinite number.
That means “+10000 for everybody” is not the answer.
But that makes allocation more important, not less.
If you cannot make one hundred +10000 weapons, put the one you can make where it matters most.
Scarcity is exactly why strategy exists.
5. A smarter system would use different enhancement levels for different missions
A rational government or major guild would probably use tiers.
Ordinary adventurers: small enhancements that improve baseline survival.
High-risk hunting teams: dozens or hundreds of points.
Dragon-class emergencies: reclaim points from lower-priority equipment and concentrate them on the main fighters.
After the battle: remove the enhancements and redeploy the points.
In other words:
spread wide in normal times, concentrate hard in emergencies.
This is not a school sports day where everyone needs the same ribbon.
It is a world where monsters can erase towns.
6. The bigger the monster threat, the more expensive “saving money now” becomes
The official anime introduction already treats intelligent monsters as a structural threat.[1]
Kodansha later describes the dragon race as a force that once brought humanity close to extinction.[2]
At that scale, “we cannot afford more than +5 this year” becomes darkly funny.
A failed hunt can mean:
dead adventurers, destroyed towns, broken trade routes, and fewer fighters for the next emergency.
Once those costs are included, underfunding Rain’s enhancement may be far more expensive than paying him properly.
If powerful monsters become worse when left alone, delay is not saving.
It is sending the invoice to the future.
7. Should the state simply take control of Rain? Absolutely not
There is another trap here.
If Rain is strategically important, someone might conclude:
“Then the state should control him.”
No.
Rain is not a power plant. He is a person.
His ability is explicitly tied to his own choice to apply and remove enhancements.[1]
The more rational arrangement would be contracts:
- pay him well,
- define enhancement levels by threat,
- agree on when points are returned,
- concentrate power only during emergencies,
- preserve Rain’s right to refuse.
A state-level ability does not turn the person using it into state property.
And if you mistreat the man who can withdraw every enhancement?
The entire series begins by demonstrating how well that works out.
8. The problem is not +5. The problem is treating +5 as the answer to everything
A +5 enhancement may be perfectly sensible for normal operations.
The weird part is keeping the same ceiling when the threat level changes.
Rain’s real advantage is not simply that he can make one absurd weapon.
It is that he can reclaim power, move it, concentrate it and redistribute it.
So the optimal policy is not:
“+5 or +10000?”
It is:
normal day: +5. bad day: +500. humanity-is-about-to-die day: reclaim everything and build the +10000 monster-killer.
And the bill should not be dumped on individual adventurers.
Government. Your turn.
References (4)
- TVアニメ『チー付与』公式サイト。レインは武器・防具など「あらゆるもの」に強化ポイントを付与し、任意に解除できる。世界には知性を持つ凶悪なモンスターが存在し、科学技術への依存で魔力が落ちる設定も紹介。漫画版と小説版は内容が大幅に異なる旨も公式に案内。
- 講談社『チー付与』14巻公式ページ。竜族を「かつて人類を滅亡寸前まで追いやった最凶の魔物」と説明。
- コミックDAYS『追放されたチート付与魔術師は気ままなセカンドライフを謳歌する。』第48話ページ。作品公式紹介として、旧ギルドの装備に付与していた膨大な魔力を回収し、銅の剣へ付与した結果「＋10000」が生まれる設定を掲載。
- 講談社 作品公式ページ。レインが旧ギルドの防具に付与していた強化ポイントを全回収し、安い銅剣と布の服へ集中した結果、伝説級の攻撃力・防御力になる導入を掲載。
