In fact, the author set up a hidden game rule: as a guardian, Shinobu-kun has a Guardian Aura that can interrupt and intervene in any form of NTR, but it comes with an extremely long cooldown.
This skill has always been saved for Sakura, the heroine. So even though there are so many cute female characters in this story, and many girls like Shinobu-kun, most of them end up miserable and lonely precisely because Shinobu-kun keeps this guardian skill reserved for Sakura.
In the Director arc, even when Shinobu-kun is not present, this Guardian Aura will automatically trigger, with Tobi-kun stepping in to interrupt on his behalf.
But in the recent arc, Shinobu-kun broke the rules and did something abnormal: early on, he gave this Guardian Aura to Fumi, who greatly resembles Sakura, and then intervened in Fumi’s NTR plot through a deus-ex-machina rescue.
From a real-world perspective, Shinobu-kun did not cheat—at most, it counts as emotional cheating. But from a game perspective, this move is a true betrayal. The price is devastating: afterward, he immediately suffers the author’s destructive punishment. The Guardian Aura enters its long cooldown, leaving Sakura completely exposed. In the NTR plot targeting Sakura that follows, all of Shinobu-kun’s attempts to save the situation become powerless, his luck is reduced to 0, and he cannot even outrun a girl. Later, even when he manages to find the coordinates of the incident location, Nakanishi-kun has already been waiting upstairs for an hour before coming down to buy water, and Shinobu-kun still ends up just missing him.
So if this were a game, when Fumi falls into crisis and Shinobu-kun receives a call from his childhood friend, an option screen would pop up:
A. Stay on set and accompany Sakura
B. Go save Fumi
But in the manga, the author forcibly chose option B for Shinobu-kun, using up his Guardian Aura. As a result, the game automatically entered Fumi’s IF route, and Sakura inevitably became the sacrifice.
If Shinobu-kun had not gone to save Fumi back then, Sakura’s necklace would not even have been hidden as a prank. All the scripts that allowed Sakura and Nakanishi-kun to form a bond would have been skipped. Fumi would have been completely NTR’d, and it would have been extremely tragic. Because of the psychological trauma, she would not have entered the film industry, and Shinobu-kun, out of self-blame, would not have walked the path of becoming a director either. Naturally, there would also be no scene of them being witnessed embracing on the street. Nakanishi-kun would have naturally exited after the collaborative production ended, becoming nothing more than a handsome coworker in Sakura’s memory, and no further story would have happened.
So it is not a matter of Sakura’s views on chastity, nor whether her trust in Shinobu-kun was sufficient, nor whether she runs faster than Shinobu-kun, nor whether she would take the initiative to message Nakanishi-kun, nor whether she should answer the phone and listen to the explanation, nor whether she is sexually starved, nor whether she should instantly break up and transfer her affiliation. All of these are merely details. Under this worldline, Sakura’s ending as the sacrifice was predetermined. It was a BAD ENDING decided by the game rules.
So now you understand why the author told everyone to imagine a parallel world that suits their own preferences, right? And why she said Chapter 129 could not be redrawn? Because even if she redrew Chapter 129 a hundred times, it would only make those detail-level bugs more reasonable; the ending would not change. To alter the worldline, the story would have to be redrawn starting from Chapter 119, allowing Fumi’s NTR to continue until she loses her virginity and becomes yet another pitiful girl in Shinobu-kun’s contacts. Only then would Sakura and Shinobu’s love remain completely unharmed, without any crisis of trust.
All real-world logic is secondary. Only the game rules are absolute. This is entirely the author’s twisted sense of amusement.
The author said she wanted to draw a story that does not yet exist in the world, and in that sense, she was indeed right: because ONLY an INSANE manga artist would spend the early game choosing A all the way through, take the heroine’s virginity, and only then start choosing B!
This skill has always been saved for Sakura, the heroine. So even though there are so many cute female characters in this story, and many girls like Shinobu-kun, most of them end up miserable and lonely precisely because Shinobu-kun keeps this guardian skill reserved for Sakura.
In the Director arc, even when Shinobu-kun is not present, this Guardian Aura will automatically trigger, with Tobi-kun stepping in to interrupt on his behalf.
But in the recent arc, Shinobu-kun broke the rules and did something abnormal: early on, he gave this Guardian Aura to Fumi, who greatly resembles Sakura, and then intervened in Fumi’s NTR plot through a deus-ex-machina rescue.
From a real-world perspective, Shinobu-kun did not cheat—at most, it counts as emotional cheating. But from a game perspective, this move is a true betrayal. The price is devastating: afterward, he immediately suffers the author’s destructive punishment. The Guardian Aura enters its long cooldown, leaving Sakura completely exposed. In the NTR plot targeting Sakura that follows, all of Shinobu-kun’s attempts to save the situation become powerless, his luck is reduced to 0, and he cannot even outrun a girl. Later, even when he manages to find the coordinates of the incident location, Nakanishi-kun has already been waiting upstairs for an hour before coming down to buy water, and Shinobu-kun still ends up just missing him.
So if this were a game, when Fumi falls into crisis and Shinobu-kun receives a call from his childhood friend, an option screen would pop up:
A. Stay on set and accompany Sakura
B. Go save Fumi
But in the manga, the author forcibly chose option B for Shinobu-kun, using up his Guardian Aura. As a result, the game automatically entered Fumi’s IF route, and Sakura inevitably became the sacrifice.
If Shinobu-kun had not gone to save Fumi back then, Sakura’s necklace would not even have been hidden as a prank. All the scripts that allowed Sakura and Nakanishi-kun to form a bond would have been skipped. Fumi would have been completely NTR’d, and it would have been extremely tragic. Because of the psychological trauma, she would not have entered the film industry, and Shinobu-kun, out of self-blame, would not have walked the path of becoming a director either. Naturally, there would also be no scene of them being witnessed embracing on the street. Nakanishi-kun would have naturally exited after the collaborative production ended, becoming nothing more than a handsome coworker in Sakura’s memory, and no further story would have happened.
So it is not a matter of Sakura’s views on chastity, nor whether her trust in Shinobu-kun was sufficient, nor whether she runs faster than Shinobu-kun, nor whether she would take the initiative to message Nakanishi-kun, nor whether she should answer the phone and listen to the explanation, nor whether she is sexually starved, nor whether she should instantly break up and transfer her affiliation. All of these are merely details. Under this worldline, Sakura’s ending as the sacrifice was predetermined. It was a BAD ENDING decided by the game rules.
So now you understand why the author told everyone to imagine a parallel world that suits their own preferences, right? And why she said Chapter 129 could not be redrawn? Because even if she redrew Chapter 129 a hundred times, it would only make those detail-level bugs more reasonable; the ending would not change. To alter the worldline, the story would have to be redrawn starting from Chapter 119, allowing Fumi’s NTR to continue until she loses her virginity and becomes yet another pitiful girl in Shinobu-kun’s contacts. Only then would Sakura and Shinobu’s love remain completely unharmed, without any crisis of trust.
All real-world logic is secondary. Only the game rules are absolute. This is entirely the author’s twisted sense of amusement.
The author said she wanted to draw a story that does not yet exist in the world, and in that sense, she was indeed right: because ONLY an INSANE manga artist would spend the early game choosing A all the way through, take the heroine’s virginity, and only then start choosing B!
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