The Darkness Was Comfortable for Me Chapter 140 Discussion

So, there's a few things to understand about this

1) Character development is SLOW. Part of this is good writing (after all, people don't just magically develop), part of this feels like the MC is just excessively dense (standard for a LOT of "romantic" content), and also the MC is a 15 year old boy.

2) The MC is a 15 year old BOY. Regardless of how things might have been 100-200 years ago, most of us these days really weren't/aren't mentally/emotionally prepared to deal with what this kid (and he is a kid) is going through. This can be frustrating to read at times as it's easy to say what "should" be done regardless of what would be more realistic if in such a situation.

3) The MC's reaction to girls is so contrived as to leave one wanting to backhand him. If the MC could have at least acknowledged some of the feelings but just not been interested in romance given everything that's happened, that would have been far better. But the level of his pity-party is so extreme that it can be infuriating (though I will say that I find this to be rather standard with a lot of LN/WN/manga and is in no way unique to this particular one. Really, it's often either a crazy dense MC or one that tries to shack up with anything with a slit between it's legs, with only a select few that do what I consider to be decent relationship building; without even touching on how the girls generally act).

Now, these three points can seem rather harsh, but I wanted to get them out of the way first. Overall the story is reasonably well written. Since the story is rather slow (which can be frustrating when you have 100+ chapters to read) it means that the author can show proper character progression. In fact, the MC has grown so slowly that he doesn't even realize his own strength, but this very point has kept him humble which in turn likely helps keep him alive (though his own annoying emo-party also plays a part in this).

Also as of c140, the MC has no harem even though the story itself has the harem tag. This should give you an idea of how slow it is developing. Instead it just had the first romantic interest leave the scene (she went to another town due to life responsibilities) and a new girl has just been introduced. Without looking up spoilers (so I might be wrong), I'm sure this is the start of the harem, but again it's being done in a slow manner that I find to be refreshing from a lot of such stories where a new girl is introduced and either she's trying to jump him or the MC is immediately trying to put their D in her.

Finally, remember that this is labelled as a tragedy. This ties back in to the MC being traumatized. Some of the drama from this is excessive/contrived, but I would say a lot of it is reasonable (even if frustrating) given the circumstances and the age of the MC (again, he's 15).

So in closing, this is an overall good read with nice character development and world building, but it can be slow and some of the drama is rather contrived/forced. I would say that some of the slowness comes from that that it's a WN which by nature can draw things out more than need be just given the type of media WNs are.