Lumi’s world feels like someone took a pretty fairy tale book, ripped all the hopeful pages out, and left you with the parts where the prince is chained on the floor and nobody comes to save him. The game throws you right into that feeling of being property, not person, and it doesn’t pretend to be “fair” or “moral”. You’re looking through Lumi’s eyes while nobles treat his body like a toy and his feelings like trash. The constant sense of touch is crazy strong here: tight collars digging into his neck, cold metal cuffs biting his wrists, the rough stone under his knees when he’s forced to kneel for way too long. There’s a scene where he has to hold a tray above his head while some smug bastard runs a hand slowly up his inner thigh, barely touching, just enough to make his skin prickle. That scene stuck in my head way more than the actual fucking, and the fucking is very much there. It’s not shy with the abuse either, you feel every slap, every pull on his hair, the burn of rope on his skin when he struggles a bit too much and still tries to pretend he doesn’t care. The game almost gets off on the contrast: he looks delicate and pretty and soft, but his whole body is marked by other people’s hands and choices.
What I liked is how the story keeps playing with that line between “he’s broken” and “he’s stubborn as hell”. One moment he’s shaking, taking another rough pounding from some masked noble using him like a stress toy, and you’d think he’s just a docile doll. Next moment, there’s this tiny flash of hatred in his thoughts when a boot presses his cheek into the floor, like he’s memorizing the weight so he can stomp back later. Romantic parts are fucked up and also kind of sweet in a guilty way: there’s a character who still uses him, still enjoys his body, but wipes the tears from his face and holds him afterwards, fingers rubbing slow circles on his back while Lumi’s breath catches and he doesn’t know if he wants to melt into it or bite him. I liked that and also kinda hated it, because it makes everything complicated, like when he’s being choked just enough to see stars and he realizes he actually wants to live, not just exist as someone’s pet. The visual novel flow is pretty standard but the choices hurt more than they look at first glance. Saying “yes” to one command might spare him a beating but makes the sex rougher later, refusing can end in him pinned down, thighs forced apart, nails scraping along his ribs while he tries not to scream. The story sometimes pretends there’s no way out, then suddenly hints that maybe all this pain is building something inside him that the masters don’t see yet. It’s messy, horny, violent, tender in fucked up moments, and very much about a pretty boy learning that his body can be used, but his will is still his, even when he’s on his back, legs spread, teeth clenched, feeling every touch like it could either destroy him or finally make him feel alive.