i’m truly hoping that she dies, it sounds awful but he’s been horrible to her the whole time she’s been endlessly trying to get closer to him and he did nothing but break her down until she had nothing left to lose. she deserves peace, she deserves to be freed. but i also want her to be happy, but at this point, she can’t even find happiness anymore no matter how hard he tries.
what a well written psychological thriller! i don’t want to call this a romance, nothing about this is romantic, but it tackles manipulation incredibly well. i can’t help but find that Katou had more of a sad ending than a happy one, sure, he’s living well and protected, but he became so isolated from everyone he can only depend on the only one who knows him better than himself. Oda is doing everything in his power to make sure Katou has no one else to rely on except himself (i.e he’s happy to know Katou has no friends as well as learning about the death of Katou’s mom). Oda is clearly obsessed with the idea of having Katou all to himself at the expanse of making him lose all social cues and streetsmart.
not only does it pictured emotional isolation and manipulation well, but the same with rape. it’s not graphic, it’s not played out to be sexy, just a simple implication that Katou probably hasn’t consented from the lifeless look in his eyes and as well as that one panel “his roots are sinking deeper into me” depicting Oda literally trying to morph himself onto Katou’s body.
it was a good read, i liked it
the prince’s hypocrisy makes me crazy, like i know he was drugged with love potion i guess but damn ?? “you say you love but you didn’t come back to me remi” BITCH ARE YOU DELUSIONAL? LMAO
he wasn't actually drugged with a love potion though, it's actually a spell that makes one comfortable with someone....pina didn't make them love her she just made them comfortable around her, also the prince wasn't even planning to call off the engagement he just wanted to feed his ego that emi was beneath him and expected her to apologize and go back to him that's why he thinks like that...but since emi never apologized he was forced to call off the engagement to not embarrass himself and to stay with his delusion that he was right and she was wrong. Remi even stated that the potion wouldn't have worked if only they believed in emi like how the queen was never under the influence of it since she never liked pina and always wanted emi to be her daughter.