I stumbled upon this short manga while looking for a different one to no avail. This review can contain some spoilers but the work is so short that I dont think it can matter that much if you can read it in about half an hour. I cant deny that the reason I chose to read it was morbid curiosity but I think overall it was a good read. There are some moral issues present throughout the whole work such as how Mr. Apothecary bought the elf as a slave. Ive read some people condemn that comparing it to Shield Heros treatment of slavery however I must disagree. Apothecary clearly is disgusted at having to resort to something like that and not believing he paid less than if he had purchased cattle. Besides hes not a person with any sort of political power so that he could directly interfere with slave trade in order to demonstrate how he doesnt agree with the system. Hes just a guy and its all he has in his power to save the girl. Another issue Ive seen regarding this work is about the damsel in distress trope taken to the limit by including the elements of the elf being severely injured to the point of complete dependency on the Apothecary and while I agree it could be fetishistic and creepy to some degree depending on what the reader seeks from reading such a work I personally found it to be somewhat inspiring. Apothecary is a selfish man who doesnt help her out of his own kindness as he explicitly mentioned it but in the end he wants to become a better person. After all he became an apothecary after being an assassin. And even if he helped Reszurre due to an egotistical motive he still did all he could in order to help her recover. About Reszurre herself I cant say a lot since in most of her appearances in this work she couldnt even speak properly. Of course a lot of the times one can only feel pity because of the abuse shes been through but once she regains consciousness its kind of a beautiful thing to see her be strong enough to recover and keep on living as best as she can. Some people are not fans of the type of romantic development present here and I dont judge them but I cant help but feel warm and nice when I saw their relationship build up. Finally while I dont think the ending is rushed in the came out of nowhere sense as the story did seem to point itd go in that direction it was quite fast paced. I wouldve preferred if we had 20 or so more chapters pages lol but Im satisfied with the result. I do like happy endings. I get why some people wouldnt like this work as it stems from a disturbing premise and I myself havent read much of this niche to compare it to something else that mightve executed it better or worse but for what it is its a heartwarming story that shows how helping someone else can also help you. Dont look up the prequel though that was pretty unnecessary to exist.