The girl liking him from the start with the guy that banished him just being jealous is actually a very normal trope and is based on the oblivious protagonist that doesn't realize the girl likes him.
What if the guy was actually innocent? Like maybe he made the promise as a child.... Or maybe it's just been so long that he thought it was a joke.... Or maybe he thought it was cosplay and they were just pretending.....
There could be so many reasons and the guy could actually have been a...
It actually makes sense when you realize he was in an environment with almost no woman and he was so unpopular with women that he has very little experience with them.
And this is an extremely cute woman that he has a crush on....
So I think it actually makes perfect sense for him to be so...
Authors need to stop doing this. Making a best girl so obvious just too add drama and then making them lose...
And they need to stop adding too many sexy girls and blue balling readers....
It's also just the fact that he doesn't expect the haren or thinks he has to get it.... Like the other guy thought he owned them....
Like that attitude wouldn't be okay even if the dude was a loyal person.
I think that's the point. Each heroine represents a common trope with all of them basically dragging sh*t out....
It's probably the author just saying how annoyed he is by the trope of everything always being dragged out....
Now the only issue is.... can you improve upon perfection???
This is...