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this is supposed to be macabre, horror-esque, and purely grotesque through and through. literally and metaphorically. and it gorgeously did just that. its dark through and through.
that's the point of the story, to explore the darkest of darks, from conventional darkness of all the gorey and macabre happenings (from mass murder to gorey unaliving to showing horrors of rituals and sacrifices)... and this, the core plot, to emphasizing the 'darkness' of the 'faith' of Sura and Sura's lover. it's entitled, "Sura's Beloved", and it did just explore the macabre nature and faith that Sura and his beloved (Cho-Ah) are gonna go through regardless of its grotesque-ness.
they went full macabre with the gore and then with the [conventionally] macabre nature of the fact that Sura and Cho-ah are bound to be together through macabre ways, especially on the sheer craziness of the fact that both of them happily accepted things in the end which was even darker. now that's good dark story.
you can hate this in terms personal preference on the themes, but (if despite knowing in the first 5 chapters that this is HORROR), calling this poorly done and hating it because of the of the trajectory of the story--which was executed because of the core themes that it already emphasized it will have from the very beginning is quite silly LMAO it's literally complaining like, "This horror is about a killer--but what?!?! The story had a killer that torture and kill people!!!? That's horrible and scary. This sucks!!!!"