Really? 'Cause that's not what people have been saying. Even the translator is jumping to conclusions.
Some of them might be joking, but without any indicators of joking or sarcasm, they could all just as well be serious.
And I'm using the term 'lolicon' because 1) the characters
are fictional, 2) many platforms do not appreciate the p word, and 3) it is shorter to type than to call him a "client of Epstein," an "Epstein's soldier," or any other euphemism that I am aware of.
I should also point out that while loli
is a body type, it's a whole category of body types that includes oppai loli, and appearance can range up into the mid-teens.
All we know right now is:
- Yuu does not legally exist
- Kou's mother wants Yuu to formally be a member of their family
- Kou's mother counted to find Yuu's age, presumably from a date we did not get to see
- Kou's mother made Yuu's age sound like a serious ordeal
What we do not know at this juncture is:
- Kou's age
- Whether Yuu is actually 14
- How Kou's mom wants to bring Yuu into the family
- Why Kou's mom sounded so serious about Yuu's age
Worth noting, is that that if Yuu's age was
actually a potential problem, Kou's mom could just throw out whatever age Yuu actually is because Yuu does not legally exist and has no records showing what her age should be. If she's worried about having encouraged her son to enter a relationship with a minor, she can just fudge the numbers a bit and claim Yuu to be of legal age
because she legally does not exist. For all we know, Kou's mom only ever planned to adopt Yuu and is only trying to get the two to be on good terms as close siblings (some parents can be a bit weird about that, wanting their kids to get along just short of being lovers) and is being so serious about Yuu's age because she needs Kou to not get it wrong so she can use some past event as cover to claim Yuu as her biological daughter with a normal adoption impossible without paperwork for Yuu.
On the flip side of that, 14 is the minimum marriageable age for girls with parental consent, so Yuu might be
younger than 14 and Kou's mom
is fudging the numbers to make marriage possible because it's the only way she can think of make her part of the family short of forging the family register and creating some complex backstory on why no one has seen her until now.