I've been binging Otoyomegatari and the Persian characters and story arc are easily the most pleasant and comfy part. Also it's nice of the author to give us one last chapter of halal bathhouse fanservice as a sendoff, since this may have been the last we see of Anis and Shirin.
Unlike all you yaoi fangirls seem to think, this has nothing to to do with Gen being gay. He's just too used to having a lackey who doesn't ask questions and whose life and circumstances he can utterly dominate as long as Reiji lives in town. It's simple cruelty.
The story does present a moral dilemma about the outright ban of forbidden magic; as earlier posts about the ban of beneficial healing magic have pointed out. However I'm still quite firmly on the pointy hat side because most of the body-altering magic actually practiced by the brimhats is in...