Yeah, this story is just straight up rape made to look "sexually appealing." The plot has becomes nonexistent.
It didn't used to bother me as much in yaoi, but the number of stories that perpetuate the "you enjoyed it, so it isn't rape" myth really demeans the real-life survivors of rape who have to deal with the shame of having felt pleasure during their assault. It's fairly common, because the body sometimes responds whether the mind wants it to or not -- for both men and women.
So this poor dude is getting regularly assaulted, his mind tormented because he now has Stockholm syndrome and his body responds to being raped despite his heart and mind wanting it to end, and the other dude is unforgivable in his violence and in how he demeans him, breaking his mind further.
At this point, the only ending I will accept is if he kills his rapist, whether he dies or flees doesn't matter. The rapist must die.
The King of Happy Ending Tropes dictates that she must be "unwell" because she is actually pregnant, right? Gotta be.
Nothing against this story in particular for using it, but I am tired of reading some variation of the phrase, "Oh golly, it's too big! I'll die!" in every story that takes place in the distant past.
...complaining about this being on the Mangago's homepage! :D It's on the homepage because it is popular (I guess, since it is in that section!) Apparently a lot of us got drawn into clicking on it to see what the fuck it was about, I guess, or else people actually like it, which given it's rating, might be true. I read the first two chapters just to see, and the premise is so ridiculous. Might as well be the "Oh no, pizza guy, I can't pay!" porno prompt from a scantily clad lady in a 70s porn to a mustachioed goofball in a Domino's hat. But to be fair, I've seen worse plots in yaoi. And tv. And movies. And classical literature. I won't be reading it, but reading the comment section has been hilarious!
The armchair, hallmark-level philosophy in the author's writing is starting to grate my nerves. I've always thought that visual novels were more about SHOWING (via artwork) and less about exposition (via the written word). But the author has gone off the rails here with the last several chapters reading like the denouement of a poorly written Austen-era romance novel.
And yeah, I'm still gonna read the sumbitching thing.
All those people who argued that what is going on in the story isn't abuse -- surely they can't deny this is straight up assault. Sure, they can argue Doc Dan might have "signed up" for the job, but nowhere did he agree to what happened in this chapter. Being put on display and humiliated like that without consent - Jeebus. I've been holding out hope for some iota of development, but this is getting ridiculous. If Dan finds out about what happened and what was said about him being a possession, and he doesn't run, then my suspension of disbelief cannot be sustained. No one as nice and kind as Doc Dan is going to let this go on. If he doesn't stand up for himself at some point, then there is no use in reading any further.