He’s definitely hot but…

Of course hes touchy, he literally can't touch anyone. Bros starved

I agree with that, but it feels weird bc she doesn’t even like him that way. Kissing without the feeling being mutual is odd

Hes an ancient ghost with no history of interacting with humans. whos killed people. Odd? Of course he is

Right because a ghost that’s not even human feeling romantically attraction especially for someone who is scared of them totally makes sense. Maybe I’d wrap my head around it more if he also liked his first friend that way too

I completely agree. The author was really trying to reel in some sort of forced romance here when the characters have barely established themselves as true friends.

There's also the weird time lapse of five minutes later and then five minutes earlier to build some sort of suspense which falls flat just like the kiss, in addition to all the other weird dialogue choices and just overall off-putting atmosphere.

I get that we all ship it, but this is something that felt really out-of-place and added very little to the story. Yes, we get he's a monster, and He's not a student from ten years ago, and...?

I think this dream sequence has hurt the storytelling more than anything.

I am still a bit lost as to how we even got to that dream sequence, but I do think that a decent part of the aspects and story telling were intriguing, and there was development of the fl, seeing her how she got to think through it and understand that she's actually in danger. Though the kiss definitely felt like forced suspension as you said (--;)

I am still a bit lost as to how we even got to that dream sequence, but I do think that a decent part of the aspects and story telling were intriguing, and there was development of the fl, seeing her how she understand that she's actually in danger and also follows through the plan. Though the kiss definitely felt like forced suspension as you said (×_×) Though i think the off putting dialogue choices are obviously intentional since, well, it is horror, so it is meant to off put you. what do you think would have been a better development or suspension leading to the kiss?

(Apologies for the double reply)

You are right that we did get the FL's character development, something I didn't consider because I was still raising my eyebrows at the ML's sudden overt obsession and touchiness, which doesn't match my expectations when he first showed up. By off-putting, I didn't mean horror. I meant that it feels out of place because it feels fast-paced and doesn't match what the characters feel for each other at this point of the story.

I definitely don't have the skills of an author for a great development, but since I love reading slow-burns: I think a better development would have been that we as readers shoud have seen more exploration of the ML. We just found out, after the kiss, that the ML seems to have two sides of him that conflict each other. It would have been interesting to analyze why he kissed the FL if we knew more about him. however, we do not. That's why OP felt that things were fanservice, and why we both thought that the kiss was forced: because the characters haven't spent enough time with each other. They can only meet at school and he protected her from bullies and he agrees to be her friend, but that's not enough to reason why they would kiss. Plus, he can't even touch her anyways.

But I do think it's pretty cool device to have her be internally bleeding after the kiss, though I think if horror and shock was the intention, a suble romantic ambiance of them kissing wasn't the best way.

All in all, I didn't really like this dresm sequence but it has set up for interesting things to come. I just hope the suthor doesn't have the ML do things that seem kinda out-of-character again, like him being super touchy-feely, in order to move the plot.

tbh yeah since there were barely any moments bw them other than her being curious about him, which really made him like this bc he didn't experience any of his contractors giving a flying f about him lol. I find it so cute, I ship it so hard.

LOL ikr but we supposed to ignore the logic, and did tehehe-

Honestly, I feel that she'll go along w it bc he the only one she got other than the glasses guy. She does seem to care about him so.

Omg lol TRUTH

I see, thank you for your analysis! All of your points make much sense, and I am inclined to agree that a slow burn or further exploration of the ml's character would have helped the flow of the story more. We do see him in the previous chapters being in denial about the fact he can not touch her like he wants though, and having fantasies of the FL reciprocating or rather lean in to his touching. Perhaps that was the attempt to make the build up to him not able to handle to maintain himself and kiss her at the end, though oc course the execution would have been better if it had more time to bloom and like you said if they revealed earlier on that the ml has 2 conflicting sides. We will just have to see where this leads to then :)