Does killing off an off-screen character which no one was ever expecting to see, raise any sort of feelings among the readers?
I don't think it's meant to make you feel bad for her, it's meant to give you a sense of unease about the rest of them that a seemingly perfectly healthy young girl is now dead only a short while after being "sold", and the expectation that maybe isn't exactly uncommon given the reaction when reading the letter. Well, I mean the news is pretty terrible for Mio too, after all.
I mean the impression the story is trying so hard to paint for us is that this place is pretty shady, and now they're implying that there's a good chance "graduation" means you're simply being sold off to some sort of pervert who is likely to literally screw your brains out of your head, while the B class who doesn't graduate appears to sell you to a brothel...
But reading between the lines, this story is only ever really told from the perspective of these girls who feel extremely oppressed. Many/most did not have the option to go here and simply ended up there. The way I've been seeing this place is more akin to an extremely conservative catholic boarding school, admittedly on the atomic end of the spectrum. Even when the woman is explaining to Chizuru how the system works, she speaks in vague terms that I could honestly imply meaning nothing more than corporal punishment, though the imagery we're given seems to imply something more sinister. These B class girls talk about how they're taught to be subservient is pretty typical of that sort of institution.
Well, I can't explain the "practical skill training notice" thing that seems to pair up girls for sexytimes. That doesn't even make sense to me. I guess you could get better at kissing, caressing? I mean the partner is missing the most important part, there... So that's just kind of weird. Unless the girls are reading a bit too much in between the lines and going a bit off the intended course there.
I do hope there's a twist to this story and it isn't really as sinister as it really wants you to think it is.
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