I love this VN! I’m really looking forward to reading #8!
So here are some things I need to talk about, but first I want to state this is not meant to be critical towards the author, I think they’ve done amazing work in that they made me feel things for the characters they’ve brought to life. I do not see the things I’m pointing out as errors in the story, but to the contrary they make the story feel more real to me, the flaws I will point out are in fact flaws real people and organizations do actually have.
Spoilers below!
OK to start off I think Lucian is way too hard on himself, and nearly all of the criticism he gets from others seems totally unfair and often counterproductive, further more what’s worse is that he instantly agrees with much of it. I think a lot of people can really feel for him in this aspect.
Next is the incompetent leaders Catherine, James, and Astor. Why would I call them incompetent?
Well as a group, upon encountering something out of the ordinary instead of conducting a weeks or months long covert investigation to determine what potential connections and contacts a subject might have they blunder forth by abducting, drugging, torturing, and threatening our dear Lucian. After subjecting him to harsh interrogation, and coming up empty handed they still view themselves as justified and righteous in their outrageous actions and giving Lucian unreasonable commands that no sane person would obey. I’d have tried to run too Lucian! Then they physically assault him again when he does what anyone would do in the face of what he experienced, and force him to endure another interrogation as well as witness the interrogation of his ex and after this is all said and done they expect to just conscript him and have him play nice with their organization. Their incompetence is further amplified when they discover Lucian’s unique ability to accelerate the development of powers in other individuals and instead of protecting and appropriately deploying such a valuable asset as a recruitment officer they set him on a path to become a front line solider where he could be killed or captured while simultaneously ignoring the justified protests of our super cute fox boy!