The two sides of reading romance manga:
“Awww, this is so sweet!”
And
“Its so over for me, the tension between me and the pavement past the balcony is overwhelming.”
No offense cause this is clearly a work of fiction but all things considered I’d be crashing out if I were him, like I wouldn’t even be present at the post-celebration thing cause it would be pretty clear to MC in that moment that all he got was essentially a rejection.
This manga, this entire time, has been dangling the consequence of SA to all of the female leads throughout its entire runtime.
But the second the male lead is threatened with it it just happens, no female knight, no deus ex machina, no nothing
And now it’s being treated as this lighthearted...