I mean her and Nishino are the same age. Nishino is considerate of it, but also makes strides to help him with it. Be it intentional or not.
I get what you are saying, but I don't get this attachment that people seem to have for a character that just got introduced like 3 chapters ago, and also her confessing right there while she knew he was on the phone with her is kind of a shitty thing to do. It doesn't matter if its a rejection or acceptance its going to make it super awkward. It also kinda ruins the plans he made with Nishino as well.
This chapter kinda just makes it feel like last chapter didn't even happen. She seemed reassured that he would remain her friend. They had fun, but then she brings up next year and he said he wanted to go next year as well. Then she looked downcast. She has been around for 3 ish chapters now, and somehow regressed right back to the previous chapter.
She seemed necessary for getting a look into his past, but the things that have happened this chapter just feel so unnecessary.
I don't know if I'd classify Nishino as considerate of the MC, at least not until effectively the Beach Episode. She continuously got in his space, defaced his textbook, left food residue all over his desk, drooled on him, and would just up and touch him when he
clearly didn't want that contact, and everyone around them treated
him like the villain when he pushed back.
Nishino is the narrative opposite of Tsuzuri: the latter is the MC's germaphobia being recognized and worked around, and the former is the MC's germaphobia being deemed 'wrong' and requiring change.
We're meant to like Nishino because the MC is "the other" in the setting, the one who's different and isn't conforming to what the rest of his peers think is "acceptable". The author made a point to indicate that the MC himself isn't satisfied with his own status quo, but that doesn't change the fact that he's expected to change for the sake of fitting in with everyone else, rather than being met halfway with compromises taking his germaphobia into consideration.
Tsuzuri at least made that effort to see him and meet him on his level when they were younger. And even then, MC could see how it was causing her to become isolated from the others in the class, because of how much he was pushed to the outside due to his compulsions. That was why he pushed her away and broke things off in the first place--because he cared about her social life being affected by him, and didn't want that.
Now, he's being pressured to change because "Nishino is the correct path to social acceptability"; the rub, though, is that we're shown the MC's own struggles, and thus we have come to sympathize with him. While it's correct that he should grow and try to find healthy middle ground with his compulsions and the way he interacts with others, Tsuzuri's approach was infinitely more considerate toward him specifically, whereas Nishino was just "I'm going to be messy around you and you'll have to change to deal with it if you want to be with me". Some people reject that sort of dynamic over the more harmonious iteration that Tsuzuri represents, and that is why I suspect there is the pushback that pervades this specific chapter thread.
