The thing about taste is that it is easily influenced by other senses. Something that feels, smells, or looks wrong, tastes wrong even if it has no taste at all.
Can't say I recall holding that sort of view toward anyone at all. Ever.
That said, I do recall a decent number of chicks being overly affectionate with younger boys on the bus. So between that, and ~5 year gaps not being really all that uncommon among adults, I don't see anything weird about it...
It's not like she has a lot to go on on who she is at that point anyway. An artist who happened to have used a unique feature of her species as part of her art. Quite frankly, Mokuri is the more off putting one given that she apparently gets pissed off at the slightest approach of the topic that...
The king already knows he doesn't want anything, he knew it from the start even, but still wants him dead anyway because "too much power". So yes he's just an absolute moron, when his plan obviously could've just stopped at sending off to the middle of nowhere.
Also the waterbear loli, the book girls, the robo-maid, the brain damage induced schizophrenic episode girl, and the albino Italian freeloader, among many others. You've got a whole dartboard full of different crazy that this could end up going.
Never was.
https://mangadex.org/chapter/8cee6212-1610-4d1a-a8db-a29edc8ec572/2
https://mangadex.org/chapter/40f3e695-d955-4963-8b52-1f2088f9d9fc/4
https://mangadex.org/chapter/a15b781c-4c28-4147-90bf-b4b2aea3c7f7/4
https://mangadex.org/chapter/12ddab4b-ed9c-4b57-ad83-aea5931e450b/1...
Eventually, if it hasn't happened already, someone will make a mockery of the setup using it. I can even see it going one of two ways. A comedic take where they're just drawing a parrot, or a horror take where it's a doppelganger about to kill and replace.
Nah, he'll still just try to talk his way out of it. Something about how she's so pretty, she could've just asked for a date instead of dragging him off somewhere, wondering where she'd like to go, stuff like that until her brain fries and lets him go.