The premise for this short manga is simple, a mother who loves her adopted daughter and is is willing to do anything for her. This manga is apparently an adaptation, so I don't know how the source material handled it, but the execution here was pretty mediocre. I won't say it was a waste of time, but the result was average, which is lamentable. This story had potential, but it did not live up to it. Still worth a read, if only to learn what not to do. The premise is that the True Ancestor Angelica, an incredibly powerful vampire princess, with the power to destroykingdoms in a single attack discovers an abandoned human child in the forest. On a whim, she takes the child home and adopts her, despite knowing that child is a Saint, a being born to defend humanity (which often results in wars against enemies of humanity, including vampires). Simple premise, but the execution falls flat, unfortunately. To begin with, the reader is rushed to when Pearl (the Saint) is six years old. A better approach would have been to dedicate one chapter to each year, so that we and Angelica have <i>reason</i> to love Pearl as our daughter. Another problem is with how the driving conflict of the manga (vampire princess adopts human Saint) is not explored in a fulfilling way. The worries about Pearl turning against her adopted mother, a human child raised by the inhuman, the inherent conflicts that such a thing would result in, they are not explored in any meaningful fashion. It's surface deep only, with Angelica being almost the only perspective on anything. The end result does not live up to the potential of its premise.

The art is attractive, Angelica is quite lovely, as are the other female characters, but good art only takes you so far without a good story to carry you. Ultimately, it's only ten and a half chapters, so again, read it, admire the art, and don't dedicate more thought to it than the author of the adaptation did, should you elect to read it.