Being a middleman is a shit feelingOuch, the locker gift in the latest chapter is painful. Can confirm, being the voluntold middleman between girls and your infinitely hotter older brother/friend is a pain in the ass.
I mean, that's how trauma works, especially when the source of his anxiety (lazy older brother) is living with him every daythe main couple is cute, but the premise is stupid, 16 chapters later the boy is still in the "maybe she is using me to get to my brother", please
it's a silly trauma to begin with. the repetition of mc rejecting intimacy by distancing himself from the houjo is just dragging the story, it's ch 12 but heavier, houjo never talked about/interacted with his brother, he should know by now houjo is more interested in her friendship urara. maybe the author forgot about ch 9, pony tail admitted she was after his brother but endend up finding mc a nice person, he dealt with it more normally, this was a result with forming a bond with houjo. honestly, ch 16 is just so ??I mean, that's how trauma works, especially when the source of his anxiety (lazy older brother) is living with him every day