Majo to Kishi wa Ikinokoru
The Witch and the Knight Will Survive

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Series is about a knight and a witch. The only spoilers in this review regard their relationship, so you should be fine storywise (other than chapter 1).

The knight lives in a village bordered by a forest and everyone is scared of a witch that lives there. One day everyone in the village dies while the knight is away and he's sure it was the witch, so he ventures into the forest and kills her (but since she's immortal, he pledges to kill her once for everyone that died). The witch doesn't fight back at all, doesn't understand what is going on and while crying in ... pain (from being stabbed, burned and killed), the knight changes his mind and kidnaps her - rather roughly.

Story continues and obviously the witch didn't do it, while also having the mentality of a kid. So yeah, the protagonist not only did that to an innocent person, but also to someone that is closer to a kid than an adult. Things happen in the story that don't really matter, and the artwork is good, but the main point is: the protagonist is awful and the author clearly wants him to end up with the witch.

While he does apologise to the witch, it's never a real apology, but just something to satisfy himself - because not once in the whole plot does he consider "freeing" her, he never offers to bring her back to her home. All his actions are just to make himself feel a bit better about what he did while keeping the witch as a hostage. He doesn't care about her, but the story intends to make you believe that he does, and at the end dares to make him "save her" from a more than justified outrage by kissing her.

This story is not only badly written, it's gross. It's about a self-righteous knight that harmed an innocent person that has the mentality of a kid, keeps her as a hostage, tries to pretend that he's somewhat sorry for what he did while never offering to undo the part of it that he still can (bringing her back), and has the gall to try to make its end romantic - as if a kidnapper can be justified cause he developed feelings for his victim. Or worse, that the victim is better off for not having agency in her life.

I took the time to write this so you don't have to read it. Try reading Ancient Magus' Bride instead if you want a hostage/monster story.