Honestly, that's the right phrasing here. She's rash, has very skewed perspective and is constantly trying to take shortcuts despite having plentiful chances to do it normally. I feel like her rejection has to be the moment she's forced to confront that her actions are a confusing mess and...
I mean, Hodaka does straight up call it blackmail in this very chapter, so it's not like the author isn't willing to call it that way. I interpret it more as a case of Takae being unable to admit that the key issue wasn't the panty flashing but the blackmail part of the situation.
Yeah, it's a genuinely good long runner rom-com, precisely because it spends so much time on developing things outside the romance. Girls all have their arcs, all have stuff to do besides MC and all have their own relationships with each other.
This series constantly has some changes, it's just the fact that these changes are 80% about things outside the main romance. And I know that it's a hot take, but I genuinely enjoy it that way.
I still hope that the jobber will survive the encounter. I mean, out of all the people here he is the only one to actually seriously consider begging for mercy and then quitting being a criminal.
Honestly, that's a big surprise for a B rank spot. I assume that the fact that the ghost seems to pick out the targets one by one means that the people can escape if they sacrifice one of their own.
He was never the smart one of his team.
I mean, we already know what his special plan is - unleashing the two kaiju he spent last 20+ chapters brewing up while the enemy forces are bound in the pitched combat.
That's a fairly solid plan, especially if we account for the fact that he's a...