Love and hate

I apologize if I am wrong, but the kid was 15 when he confessed and the guy (22at this time) said wait until you grow up ..so the kid is 18 (and the other one 25) when they meet again...it is not pedophilia... and their age gap is not even that big.., I mean how many Shoujo or Yaoi are there where a 16yo has an affair with a teacher 15 to 20 years older...

I’m not talking about the age they confessed to each other, I’m talking about the age where the older guy started to have feelings for the boy, and if I’m not wrong, it was when he was a child, and that whole lusting over a kid is not cute to me, I am used to the Yaoi dynamic, the age of consent in Japan is 14 so it’s fine for them so I don’t care about the gaps, I just get bothered with the mangas where the whole “

So I re-read...and you are right (I missed that point the first time) he did say « soon my feelings became impure.. » and we see a picture of an elementary kid (judging on th backpack) When I first read it I only kept in mind that he saw him as a little bro attached to him...in this case it does feel weirdly uncomfortable...

Yes, that’s exactly when the whole story bothers me, it’s not cute at all, that’s a child, what type of thing made you attracted to a child who treated you as their older brother,

Look as a mother of three young boys, I don’t like pedos either but tbh the fact that he understood that what he was feeling towards the child was wrong and chose not to act upon his feelings shows that he’s not a bad person. Considering there was actually no action against the child and he was disgusted in himself for having such thoughts I didn’t mind it. I do however wish the mangaka could’ve worded it better.
Something like “ I wanted the child to hold me” was seriously unnecessary (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Like “my feelings towards him had became more mature” “my love has changed its meaning” literally ANYTHING else would have been fine! ┗( T﹏T )┛