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Seme is too persistent and never gives up on uke, acted like a creep around him (w/c some readers might look past due to his face card) and was not reflective of his actions and implications to the other boy's life, and then he kinda blackmails him to answer his feelings or lose him as a friend. Uke is more realistic in terms of his reflection and realization (considering he was straight) but too fickle and sometimes oblivious, it's an odd blend of being strong headed and a pushover which does not work. Meh for me, not much chemistry for me to continue reading the sides. The novel might be better and give more insight to the development of their relationship tho.
- because what even were those conflicts and resolutions? it felt so sudden and unsatisfying, it even seemed like it didn't matter considering everything was resolved by the gramps in the background; also the angst part about the uke not wanting to drink the seme's blood did not make much sense coz it happened AFTER seme cried about the thought of him not being needed anymore.
Honestly felt like author just liked creating a BL about a vampire x hitman and enjoyed it too much then suddenly remembered that they have to give it some drama and plot so they just threw those things together lol, they could've just went full throttle with the fluff tho since it worked great, but then again it might've been the editor's choice too in order to serialize the story more, which makes sense now that there's apparently a second volume to this - I just hope that one has a better conflict/resolution arc.