Truth be told, I don’t really know what to make of this. The twisted, dark ambience of the first round of chapters pulled me in easily enough and I adored Miyako and Toma’s early relationship more than words can describe. Sadahiro-sensei could write a prequel to this regarding only their time in the orphanage and I would be the first in line to purchase it. According to the first couple of chapters or so, I also felt that the story could become one of those rare moments in BL where Angst, Perversion and some kind of Love (a severely unhealthy kind of love) gather beautifully and evolve near to perfection.
Twas not the case, unfortunately.
I still felt very much compelled by both Toma and Miyako (and especially by the latter), but the plot started to drag into quite familiar waters. I love yakuza-themed BL so the story could easily carry on that direction and still leave me satisfied. Instead, it just set out to repeat the same half-assed pattern of the love triangle in a hardly surprising Master-Servant relationship. Itsuki was so plainly uninteresting, an utter cliché, an utter bore, absolutely predictable in his actions, and inevitably he dragged the whole plot downhill. The moment he first appeared I started to fear this would happen and it did. Way to ruin a plot in its way to magnificence! (ahah, sorry, got carried away a little there…)
It wasn't a terrible read or anything, far from that. The smut is just to Sadahiro-sensei’s fans taste and I'm guessing the story, as a whole, won’t disappoint the majority of them. However, I think the only reason that made keep on reading this was the hope of glimpsing more into Toma and Miyako’s twisted and terrible past and like I said--- didn't lie, I’d still read a whole manga on that. As for the sequel, I’m not so sure…