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I'm almost positive that they are not directly related. Shirotani and Kurose, that is. The girl (in the chapter 21 chinese translation) happens to look like Kurose, but right now the story has one central theme that it has yet to tease out: (mysophobia and) the "sanity" or even "sanitized" standard to the ideal, true love.

I feel like an incest trope would add yet another layer to the story that detracts from a lot of the themes that we're already working with. Or rather, it would complicate them in a way that makes it almost impossible for the story to legitimize its point: that is, how people love each other and its expression is not something to be judged by others - there is no "staple" formula to romance. Adding incest further pushes the envelope by asking the readers to accept yet another aspect of Shirotani and Kurose's love that is unorthodox, just after we have it clearly articulated by one of the characters (Kurose) that the story surmises no issue with S&M, and even supposes that "mental health" in itself is a fuzzy status without clear definition. (e.g. In the opening chapter, Shirotani says he is willing to live with his mysophobia time and again. And then, Kurose, as a mental healthcare professional, defiles Shirotani before he is cured, even going so far as to capitalize on his mysophobia in order to bring out more sexual tension between them, insinuating that there is nothing problematic about Shirotani's condition, but that it can be considered a kink rather than a disability. Finally, Kurose admits his own mental duality and encourages us, as an audience, to accept his perspective (because the alternative, to shun him, was paralleled with Shirotani's past, a thing which we are unfamiliar with, aside from the knowledge that it has distorted Shirotani severely). In associating "It's disgusting" with the rejection of Kurose's binary,sadistic love, we are vaguely urged to instead accept him, rather than side with the obviously confused perspective of Shirotani.) Adding incest at this point would not help the story to work through the issues it has already brought up with the mental sanity of the characters, and thusly th legitimacy of their love.

I think it's an interesting idea to purpose that Kurose has somehow known Shirotani this whole time, but perhaps through relations with his father professionally, not by blood.

I've read a ton of screwed up stuff in BL, and Harada normally never got to me that much. But this last update was absolutely disgustingly jarring to me, and I don't know why. Besides the rather predictable twist ending that she likes to do, I thought the idea of being stalked, molested, and raped in a train car is a terrifyingly REAL issue that women and occasional men experience all the time in Japan - and their reaction is exactly the same: they don't want to shout or say anything because they are ashamed. They don't even bother to look at their attacker. This read really says a lot about the cons of a collectivist society such as Japan, where it's better to sacrifice your basic sense of safety than to cause a ruckus.

Ya all, I have some news for you guys. Admins are turning off comment sections one by one. Hold your tits and be quite, stop messing around and read your manga/hwa/huas . Creators are pointing on this websites especially on comment section so be careful what you are typing out of anger. It is being recorded, at least I have been informed abt that. Cheers

I need to say this. Stockholm Syndrome is one of the great romance plot devices, but it isn't real, just like rape in romance literature isn't real. It's bunkum.

The American Psychiatric Association does not list Stockholm Syndrome amongst its pathologies and disorders. It does not recognize the syndrome. This is for sound reasons. It isn't because the evidence was not examined. It was amply scrutinized. The rejection was based on that evidence was incomplete, incorrect (distorted) and ultimately used to harm, rather than support, victims and survivors of violence.

So, if you want to read stories about frail, helpless Cinderellas and Cinderfellas who fall in love with their abusive Gonad-Scratchers, go ahead! Scratch that itch all you like. Get off in your fantasies, but don't go around saying Stockholm Syndrome, like it comes across in fiction, is anything like what victims of violence experience.