Gave it a go, the characters are looking really nice, but the backgrounds feel out of place. These two artstyles mixed together don't really fit IMO. The story is interesting so far, for 4 "chapters" maybe a little bit short. The scene with the body of the caretaker wasn't as hard for me, but the additional infos from the guards about having her raped was a red flag for me. Honestly I agree with many voices here, taking her in or just killing her would have been more than enough, there were no need to go this dark. I just hope this was the maximum amount of darkness and the only scene of this kind.
The 16:10 (? not sure) ratio of the renders was a bit annoying because of the MASSIVE black bars at the top and bottem of the screen. And seeing the renders not even being filled with important details on the left and right side, maybe it would be possible to release a 16:9 version, if it's not too time consuming. Just a suggestion though.