Responses

i’ve always thought that the discomfort i felt while reading this was because of the old lover dying and then raine becoming depressed, which gave the story a gloomy feeling throughout it, and him then filling his loneliness by adopting a child gave the story more of a gloomy feeling as well. not to mention it made you feel awkward and uncomfortable. but i don’t know that’s what i feel reading this.
something about this story bothers me, though i can't place exactly what it is.
i want to say it's because it's a child-grooming story but that doesn't make sense if the adult didn't actually raise the child to be his sexual partner, and it's not a shotacon story either because the child grew into adulthood (albeit at an abnormal rate).
maybe it's just because of the adoption angle in general? it didn't seem necessary for the vampire's childhood to be touched on at all if he was going to grow into adulthood within a few months of the story itself.
i'm not sure, it's just a story that left me with a vague feeling of discomfort the entire time.