Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #erased memory(1)

Trigger Warning: Rape As a long time lover of RPG games, I appreciate the effort to create a story in a RPG world. In this one though, we join the elf wizard Phil, and human hero warrior Takamasa, at the end of their main quest. They are now continuing to travel the world together in search of elves and for reasons that made no sense Phil would occasionally force himself on Takamasa and then wipe his memories. Sure, Phil believed that Takamasa loved the princess, but I don’t believe that the rapes were given any rationale. Firstly, because Phil showed no deep attachment to Takamasa beyond the friendship of a child who has grown up in his company (at least not during the beginning when the rapes happened). Secondly, elves didn’t even mate in the human way but through a mind connection. It just didn’t make sense! Obviously, by the end of the story there was more of a feeling of them being a couple, but it was through Takamas’s efforts, not Phil’s. Apart from that glaring story flaw, I liked the 2 travelling and adventuring together as a couple and the art was really quite pretty. I would probably read it again simply for the fantasy adventure feeling of the story, I just wish that if rape was going to be used for plot development that the one initiating it was shown to be going through some mental or emotional conflict but driven by overwhelming emotions or at least be a race that had sex.. o(>.<)o