Deep Pivot Chapter 6 Discussion

This had more body horror from the ML than I was expecting from other reviews and the description

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It's implied ML tore off his previous guide's head and possibly ate some of him while they were "guiding" and that's why he has to be muzzled and doesn't want deep guiding now???

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It also makes ML and his supporting medical staff's approach to MC quite dubious, particularly in the way they're getting his "consent"

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MC clearly doesn't know any of this and they don't tell him about the stakes involved, for example, even down to even the abort button they give him in the treatment room with ML. MC clearly thinks it's just a stop signal, like maybe to the staff outside, when it's actually a "call in the national guard" type situation and ML continues to... not tell him? Even when he can see MC going to press the button??? Also why give him the button there when ML can so easily stop him from using it anyway... orz why am I expecting logic from webnovels...

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So this is a case of dubcon because MC is not fully informed. Maybe it gets better; it's certainly nowhere near the worst example in the genre, but I was going in expecting something fairly sweet and "green flag", and this ain't it. I'll update this review if I give this story another shot. It otherwise seemed like a fairly typical sentinel/guide story, but decently translated and nicely readable. Darn getting lured in by pretty cover art 😂