A Day in the Life of the Former Prisoner of War and His Interrogator

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Felix continuously had the same nightmare.

He was back in the interrogation room, his hands tied behind his back in heavy fetters, his feet chained to an iron chair, and his thin cloth robe drenched. In the damp prison, he was barefoot on the stone floor, shivering with cold. The wounds on his knees were sutured to stop the bleeding, but the pain penetrated into the bone. The marks on his thighs and back were so red and swollen that he had to stretch his shoulders and stand on tiptoe to minimize contact with the chair.

Someone was talking outside the door. He vaguely heard a string of numbers, which were the numbers he was given when he was thrown into the dungeon. Those people also said ‘peace talks,’ ‘agreements,’ ‘Temple group intervention,’ ‘counting prisoners’ and so on. Then, the door creaked open and a familiar figure came in, the face he was most afraid of——

King Capital’s Knight Sean Clayson. He was tall and cold, with long pale gold hair tied at the back of his head, and his facial features were as delicate as those of an elf portrayed by a court painter.

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昔日战俘与审讯官的一天一夜
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karwasama
karwasama rated it
September 12, 2020
Status: Completed
The entire time I was reading this novel I was like, "What the hell is going on?"

Even after I've finished I have no idea what I just read. If someone told me this was a sort of fanfiction based on a prexisting game/story it would actually make things much clearer. Or, if this is supposed to be an original story, the author could have made it so much better by using extra words/chapters for world building and exposition, rather than giving us a half-hearted explanation turned dialogue mess.

I have so... more>> many issues with this novel, but it all boils down to one thing: why the hell is this story so rushed? In the first chapter the MC is still shivering in fear at the ML (? I think they're together??? It was very poorly implied) but by the end of chapter five, which is like a day and a half later, the MC is completely fine. That's not how trauma works. The characters are not developed in slightest, and the conflict is just flat out told to us. The author was basically like "This guy is evil. He ruined the MC's life. You have to hate him." and there you go, there's the antagonist of this story.

This honestly feels like the author took a hundred chapter long novel about a war in a fantasy world and its aftermath and tried to condense it down to five chapters. Not to be harsh, but I didn't enjoy this at all.

The translation was good. The fact that this even has 1.5 stars is because I didn't want the translator to feel bad, because their work is honestly quality stuff. It's just that the novel itself is pretty bad.

So yeah. Final rating is a 1.5/5.0 stars. <<less
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Dio85
Dio85 rated it
December 28, 2021
Status: Completed
This was quite a twist, especially towards the end of the novel! I can't say I was expecting that at all! It was a realistic ending, as fear is not something that will just disappear over night, but at least he is making the effort to push forward. In times of war these things do happen and it brings you to the truth of the trauma that the person must deal with afterwards. The character that manipulated him was just so sad! Everyone was affected by that person's action. This... more>> novel left me feeling with a feeling a hope towards the end and I appreciated the way the story was laid out. Thank you for another awesome translation! <<less
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caicaicat
caicaicat rated it
November 23, 2021
Status: Completed
Excellent. Simply excellent.

So much depth in such a short story. I love that the climax offers a chance for the mage to rewrite a moment he was paralyzed in fear in the past. I think it is a key and a hint of his future healing.

It is painful to see how one character manipulated and abused so many around him in the past and how that continues to effect the characters in unexpected ways during the present.

An opportunity to confront moments if abuse that haunt our minds in a way... more>> that can only exist in fiction. <<less
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Pezwitch
Pezwitch rated it
June 11, 2021
Status: Completed
I love the short story format in all genres and this is an excellent example of it

Highly recommended if you enjoy short stories
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Lovemarsh
Lovemarsh rated it
March 1, 2021
Status: Completed
This story is a short story describing Felix's life a year after the war and being released from prison. It shows the shadows which remains from the interrigation and dives into the reason of the past war. Sean, the former interrogator, wants to become close to Felix, but Felix's trauma makes it more difficult.

Overall a good story for a short story.
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Justjessplease
Justjessplease rated it
January 7, 2021
Status: c5
I really enjoyed this story! It was cute and short. Even though Felix did have a traumatic beginning the story was very sweet. It was difficult to follow along at times but overall I enjoyed this short story
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kingeddie
kingeddie rated it
December 8, 2020
Status: c5
the premise is really interesting but the actual work is just... eh. like it's fine and I don't hate it, but I won't reread it. The beginning was written very well with Felix's trauma being reasonable. But the romance is so weird and doesn't make sense to me in the way it was written.

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It is so unrealistic to just... have Felix fall in love with his interrogator the same day he has nightmares about him. Felix clearly states that Sean makes him so uncomfortable--especially because he is so touchy. But by the end of the day, they become lovers??? Felix goes through the interrogation again in Sean's mind, because of a really convoluted spell/i don't know nothing was explained fully, and once it ends he says he feels safe with Sean??? It's so unrealistic that it's just not good.

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I regret giving this three stars. It's more of a 1.5-2.o story. <<less
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