I just reread everything and I absolutely love how much MC dotes(?) On Tojou lol, he's so nice to his brother's wife (lol), I just love their in-law relationship
On that not, I love how authentic the brotherhood is between MC and Ayato, very real brother dynamic. I just know the author has a little rat of a brother lolol
This was a great read ugh!! I wish it was longer, only to be with them a little more but its such a perfect length that anymore would truly antagonize its pacing, it's perfect TvT
Ill miss you Eus, my delicious man with pretty hands
I lowkey can forgive Eckles, bro is 17, had his whole family and country destroyed, got enslaved, suffered so much torture, and then he falls in love with one of "enemy". He loves her enough to abandon everything: revenge, his people, his freedom, and knows he can never be loved back, even before all his mistakes, she was only using him. I get Penelope was dealing with her own problems, being hounded by death at every turn, she was only doing whatever she could to survive. But objectively, as her slave, the power dynamic of it all, could really only end one way....it was never gonna be love. So he is now having his fears and anxiety amplified by a mirror and bewitched to commit these wrongs. If I recall, he had all the intentions to showcase his swordsmanship and become a commoner by his own efforts but it was only after Yvonne brainwashed him that he started going askew in his actions. Was there ever a moment he was never enslaved? First his body, now his mind. I suppose his ending in the book was the only way for him to be truly free of any shackles
Crazy he's 16, like I knew that, but him breaking down, his confusion, and remorse, it just truly shows his age because he's really just a kid dealing with something so much bigger than he could imagine. The big sister in me wants to protect him T^T
I'm lenient toward hot people so the emperor doesn't bother me much, he just needs to shut up and look pretty
Daddy Guin is so hot, he can scorch the earth and I'd look the other way so long as he gave me glance~♡
Lowkey wouldn't mind a BL between them ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Like 8 years ago when I was first reading this, it was PEAK. I had never read anything like it and the artstyle was good. Now, 2026, as a grown ass woman, and where there's more variety of yaoi/bl since then, it's pretty cringe and soooo toxic. But I read worse shit now so maybe I haven't changed all that much