It's not entirely unrelated; she was a nepo hire who was taken on specifically because of her relationship with the MC. Her ability to do the job is never particularly addressed, so the default assumption would be average - not bad enough to be worth mentioning, but also not good enough to be worth mentioning. In other words, she's replaceable and the reason she was hired no longer applies.
The issue with that is she was established as a nepohire retroactively while not being bad enough to warrent being one. What I mean is, as you said, she's average at her job. Thus the owner has no logical reason to fire her and only does so because she's involving personal feelings. That is unfair, which doesn't work for unsympathetic villians as unfairness generates sympathy.
Pretty obvious it's not a logical reason dude, it's an emotional one. She made it blatantly clear she hurt someone very important to the boss, the very person who was the only reason she was considered, so now the boss don't want her there anymore. It's not an issue, it just seems like you're trying to make her into a computer and not a person.
My issue ISN'T that it is an emotional reason. My issue is that everything to do with the punishment (besides the action to warrent it) was rushed. The fact that the ex was only hired/fired due to nepotism that was established in this very chapter.
Even if he didn't directly mention how much he made, he was taking her to this world's equivalent of Michelin Starred Restaurants and saying "order as much as you want of whatever you want," and she thought "he's taking me to all-you-can-eat buffets."
You're upset that she was wrongfully terminated, when the person who wrongfully terminated her flat out admitted it was wrongful termination? Did I get that right?
It's a sports crop top. You see female athletes wear them in hot weather pretty often.
Yes, if you want to be reductive. However, my bigger issue is that the story did not build up to the wrongful termination nor would the MC's and ex's actions, besides the break up (and even then the ex was passive when her partner screwed over the MC), would lead to her being terminated. Thus the story made the owner do it because she disliked the ex which feels unsatisfying as the owner was a background character up until now.
Right. So, a few things:
Even if it isn't the final downfall, I dislike how passive the ex/the MC are in causing it.
I get that it is supposed to be not fair. However, it still rubs me the wrong way that something unfair happened to the ex when the ex is supposed to be unsympathetic. If they had more build-up/development of the owner then I wouldn't mind it as much.
My issue with that is that the new BF got off best when he did the worst actions of everyone. The ex broke up with him. The ex's friend blacklisted him (after he got fired). Both got fired over it. The BF only got a demotion.
To me, that isn't the story saying "the ex didn't deserve to be fired". Rather, since the owner is associated with the MC and the MC is shown to be a good guy, the story is saying her actions are so bad that the MC's friends are willing to ruin their lives in order to get justice/revenge for it. I find that sentiment a bit too overblown for her because the only direct action the ex did was cheat and she was passive when people were fucking with the MC.
Well, all I can say is neither of them are done being punished/receiving karma. Kaori's doesn't stop until she recognizes that what she did was wrong and then she gets a minor redemption similar to the receptionist friend has. Kaori's BF never takes accountability and continues receiving karmic retribution, or it's implied he does.
Ok. I hope the later downfalls are plotted better than this one.
If she does anything stupid/idiotic and gets punished for it/ if the people punishing her are actually built up as actual characters then it should be fine. I just hated this one as it felt overblown and overly mean when her/the mc's actions weren't linked to it after chapter 1.
If the later villians do stupid/evil stuff and get punished by the affected parties then it should be fine.
yeah agreed, she is not bright at all and absolutely not loyal
At this point it’s on him. Dude refused to tell her shit. He’s gone all the time for long hours (in dangerous work with a high enough mortality rate that she thought him getting banned was a good thing because in her eyes he was straight up going to die on the job. And he probably is if his mentor was remotely as strong as he was) to the point that she had time to get seduced and start a whole ass new relationship with zero hints while also maintaining a full time (japanese time) career. Every chapter just breaks out new ways in which her not knowing makes no sense without him actively cutting her off from every aspect of his life and we’re supposed to be outraged at her not knowing shit about him as a result.
