Forgot to add on, that love works different for everyone too! There's people in real life who get married 1 month after they meet or date, or couples who just move super fast and still stay together forever. I just wanted to reiterate that chemistry doesn't need long to bloom, and it's not like Gongja and Lariette don't talk or spend time together, so yeah (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
It's always a pleasure to find a fellow Raviel x Gongja defendor. I guess the only difference we have is, I do classify them as a pair of crazies lol and I love them all the more for it! Idk what kind of love stories the people saying the love was forced was consuming but, there's worse out there AND those are actually focused on romance lmaoooo look at how healthy these two actually are, they have things in common (regression) around the same age, there's mutual consent (gasp that's rare), on equal grounds and they even have the same goal! Wow, I'm actually convincing myself even more that their love story actually progressed on an apt pace lol
The point of this comment is me disagreeing with every single person who says the romance feels forced. (LONG COMMENT BEWARE) If you disagree with me, feel free to dislike this, scroll away and pretend I don't exist. Your opinions are still valid whether or not I disagree. If you wanna read this, go ahead! At the end of the day this is my opinion and thoughts (=・ω・=)
I want to start of by saying that yes, I completely understand and accept that their love story looks forced. I don't blame you. The two literally only have 7-12 days with each other, and somehow a love story is suppose to blossom between them. It sounds stupid and absurd and I agree. No sane love story happens in 7 days. So with that, I agree that their love story feels forced. Before I read this arc, I also did not want love to happen because hell, power isekai mangas don't do romance justice ╥﹏╥
But I mainly disagree because those logics don't apply to them ._. Lariette and Gongja are not sane people (both time travel to the past constantly it's obv not gonna make them sane), but they are not insane either. The 7 days that they spend together (adding on 5 more cause both will time travel back) isn't just them going out, it's them literally fighting against things that want them killed. Coupled with how they speak to eachother, how they look and how they think, it's perfectly logical for them to have chemistry and love to bloom! It's literally life and death for them, obstacles after obstacles within 7 days, there's no way it won't happen between them when they are experiencing life tgt at rapid pace now.
If y'all dont like this love story, I just wanna remind that Suzume the movie literally encompasses this exact kind of love story, except for them it isn't 7-12 days, it's 4. If you liked that movie (love story literally there with the plot), there is no reason for you to dislike this love story. However! If you just dislike it, and have no reason for it, that's completely fine too (⌒▽⌒) Emotions are not meant to be reasoned with, and I agree. I won't argue or debate with you on that! But this is my 2 cents on this whole thing.