The first of Jun Hayami's works that I walked away from thinking "I enjoyed reading that." It's obvious from the second page what's going on (think the movie Dogtooth), but it plays out in a different way than you'd expect--especially the ending, which reminded me of the weird swerves something like Bruce Jones' Twisted Tales used to make. The characterization is a lot better than the two dimensional predators and prey that make up most of the other Hayami I've read--there's still that dynamic here, but there's more agency to both sides. My only complaint is that the incident that sets the second half of theplot in motion doesn't really make sense.