thank you for ch 57
as for some of the comments ... yeah, part of it can be considered "depressing", that sounds like a pretty accurate portrayal of REAL LIFE ... real life is not all "wine & roses" and happy times ... actual "real life"can be a hopelessly confusing mess of conflicting thoughts and feelings
and Japan is not the only country in the world where large age-gap romance occurs and is seen as normal ... of course most of the human race does not want to be bothered to actually have to THINK about much of anything ... like the founder of a world wide religion who married a 14 year old, and at that time, and in that country, it was NOT illegal, and in fact was considered fairly normal
... and for those who are horrified by even the idea of this happening ... the country was AMERICA, and the founder of the world wide religion was John Smith, who founded the Mormon religion ! (if I remember correctly his 2nd wife was only 14 when she married him)
people need to get their heads out of their butts and realize that for most of the history of mankind, once a girl started having her menses, she was considered to be an adult, and was considered to be of marriageable age