I'll be honest, it honestly feels more like the author realized that the pedophile was honestly the better option, got scared and quickly backpedelled. Up to the very last appearance, his Mother was awful and planning on using him to steal her money only to now behave like a good mother to him, and the pedo was smarter before, going through all that and leaving her after torture is extremely stupid and dangerous, there is nothing stopping her from telling the cops everything she did and about her relationship to her son, the threat doesn't work here. Author just got scared or the editorial came down on them.I know we liked to joke about how ironically the predator was treating Naoto better than his own mother but these last couple of chapters pretty much showed me that mother is actually better.
Despite being tortured by her she still wanted to tell the cops that it was her who had done it. Unfortunately, her trauma from the torture won can't blame her but it did show that she wasn't always like this.
Naoto is officially fucked. Literally a predators wet dream. Now no other adult is taking care of him besides her. She's won.
In these types of manga I usually have a hard time internalizing just how messed up these individuals are because how fucking hot they are(and they usually don't take it this far) but the torturing of the mother did for me. This chick is terrifying. My brain accepted the stalking, knocking out the teacher, hush money for the mother, drones that fucked that one kid's family garden, but this...was a too much man.
Seeing her finally acting like a good mother only for this to happen.
Wait we're switching storylines? She hastly fucked the kid while he got a lot going through his head and there's no reaction to that? What about that whole trying to get the crazy psychobitch's satch of money? They were setting up for more bitch mom and dropped it to pull a wholesome mom out of nowhere? This felt so rushed i wouldn't be surprised if the manga ended right here but it's still going so i really don't know what's going on
The second part of the original hentai doujin had this couple, so they are just directly jumping into that story. It's a better one IMO, she literally saves his life at the end from what i remember.Oh it's shifting protags? What a shame. This gyaru already seems like she won't be a good person but as a highschooler she won't be able to do anything as crazy as Naruko did.