The ending seemed a bit too jolly and happy. He wakes up to the sight of the merman utopia (Atlantis) and everyone is all happy and celebrating the union between him and the ML. I feel like the ending was 'too good to true' considering all the horrific events that haunted the MC just chapters prior. He was constantly worried about his friends (Davis, Raphael, and Eva), but there was not sign of that by the final chapter.

I don't understand how the MC could be so happy after witnessing the horrific war crimes committed by the ML. The MC expressed multiple times his discomfort of witnessing the ML's brutal side.

Despite how emotionally torn the MC felt over this, he seemed to have completely forgotten about worries over Davis who became suicidal after getting r*ped. In fact, we don't even know if Davis was successful in his suicidal attempts after jumping off a cliff into the sea because the MC was never able to find his body (and even forgotten about the whole matter because he got sidetracked by his jealousy of seeing an illusion of his love rival mating with the ML).

To summarize the events of this incident, the ML's merman subordinates captured and r*pe the human POWs (prisoners of war). The MC had begged the ML to release them when he saw Davis amongst the captives and became so furious at the ML's refusal to the point that he secretly colluded with the ML's worst enemy (The MC's biological father) in an effort to rescue the human captives. When the MC and the enemy found the captives, Davis regained consciousness, refused the MC's offer to rescue him, and immediately jumped off the cliff because of the shame of being r*ped by his enemies. The MC did not seem to believe that Davis had died from the fall because he didn't see his body, so he begged the enemy multiple times to find Davis. The enemy then showed his true colors as he hypnotized the MC with an illusion of the ML and the MC's love rival being together. After the whole thing dies down, the ML moved all the mermans and the MC to their mother's nest and the MC goes into vegetative state for 2-3 years. He wakes up and it's happily ever after.

ML is sort like his gene giver? Father? And he doesn't even see MC as lover but just descendants... it's weird because you don not have that impression in first arc of story kind of thing.

What kind of person he is??? First few times are ok. Naive but ok. After that? After so many arcs? Even the so after climax when he becomes mercenary? Oh it's so damn not pretty anymore. AND he drags his silly naive thinking over until LAST ARC??? Where everything can be avoided, IF he does learn to be smart.

This whole novel is a foolhardy journey of his and silly sympathies and s*upid decision (or indecision) that CAUSE trouble and victims everywhere AND he learns NOTHING!

In short - a goddamn damsel in distress that can only preach about kindness and humanity but do nothing except bring any trouble to ML and many victims of his 'kindness'

I thought it will better after he becomes mercenary... hehe but nope. If follow up by the last trouble in last arc, I'll say that he is degenerate.

Folks, 'dumb' isn't only for intelligent here. But for someone that lacking action, only knowing to preach and make everyone else in trouble.

The Venice arc is probably the arc I liked the least. The MC insists on sticking with the ML without considering the situation. The ML is undercover but MC's love brain just keeps messing things up. From this arc onwards, I find many of the MC's thoughts and actions selfish. I just wished the MC could be a bit more rational and try not to be a liability considering how there isn't much he could do. Didn't really like how there's this subtle "love solves it all" vibe going on as well.

One part of the novel that made me accept that the MC is perhaps not the brightest kid in the room is when he thought of the man (not ML) who tried to r*pe him as the only one he could trust. Like???????? I understand that he is probably the only person in that situation that you are most familiar with but trustworthy?? Come on. laterthemanbetrayedtheMCsolike.. Bro The author gave us many insights to the MC's thoughts and there many which I couldn't fully agree with.

Side note: I noticed that the MC slipped and fell so. Many. Times. It's so overused (・・;) ゞ

It's frustrating how ML doesn't understand MC's struggles (about "mating", sense of shame, attachment to his normal life and family, fear of turning into something not human, unwillingness to belong to someone (like an object),...) but I hope he will learn to. I especially hope that he can learn to take MC opinion into consideration and see him as an equal/partner/something. At the moment ML takes it for granted that MC belongs to him and if MC does something he doesn't like he forces him to submit, it just gives me the impression that ML sees him as beneath him and in my opinion that's just not a healthy relationship. I'm a person who doesn't like it when others tell me what to do so I always have troubles understanding when reading about a submissive MC (well it's clear that MC isn't but he is still forced to submit in face of ML) so I just hope that this detail will have some development. After reading this, please don't be too prejudiced about the ML since he is still pretty good except for this.