This is coerced prostitution, not just once but twice.
This manga is so cute but irks me so much I almost can’t stand it. Even before the father’s extra story, it was a bit messed up but since the main protagonists liked each other I could get over it. But now I’m boiling with rage.
First you coerce two young adults (that just became adults) that they have to fuck in order to ‘protect’ your town. And then discarding their feelings yet again you coerce them into marrying so you that the children they have will have to go through the same thing they did… umm… fuck that.
And this sounds a hell of a lot like grooming to me, not the perpetrators grooming the children for themselves but grooming them for each other. They are constantly told they will have to marry and have sex once a year as kids for the good of the town (and told that horrible things could happen if they don’t) raised to not know anything else with all that weight and ‘adult’ eyes trained on them. Just knowing that those townspeople were imagining those children growing up to have sex is disturbing and sick.
All the adults are child predators and you can’t convince me otherwise.
There has been something that’s been irritating me as of late, it’s not even a big part of the manga but it’s infuriating to me. So you’re telling me you’re going to rip someone away from their home, friends, family, a safe environment, who knows if they might have a partner or even children either, and your going to bring them to this new world that’s full of danger so they can help ‘save you’ as a saintess and even make the mistake of bringing an extra person along. Not to mention the prince treated the actual saint like garbage. And then you go and berate them for something that was perfectly acceptable in their own world. Like soaking their feet and showing the feet and legs. Like sir, you brought me here, against my will, fuck off. If the saintess decides to wear no shoes and shirt shorts the people of that world should shut the fuck up and suck it up if they want the saints help.
In all actuality being the saintess sounds like a prison sentence. No freedom, guards following you around, having to learn and fight for a country you don’t even know or care about while being alone without loved ones. There are a few instances in the Manga where I myself would have been so out of there and would have left them to fend for themselves.
Sorry about my rant it was eating me up inside so I had to get it out.