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Someone tell me what happens to the unfaithful childhood friend at the end?
Yes, the entire soccer club get disbanded. They are that thorough in their punishment.Wait. The soccer club got disbanded? or the current team only (with members only getting expelled from school)?
the Consequences Train starts rolling and it never, ever, ever stops.Someone tell me what happens to the unfaithful childhood friend at the end?
was legitimately looking forward to you showing up.While I don't disagree with your overall take, there's one part I have to push back on. Yes, Miyuki might not have had a direct hand in everything her classmates did to harass Eiji. But in this chapter, by her own admission, she let Kondo abuse her arm, take a picture of it, and send it out.
She may not have held the phone herself, but she still stood by and allowed it to happen. She helped that rumor spread. That makes her an active participant in Eiji’s harassment, not just a bystander. In that moment, she had a choice, and she chose to let it happen. That makes her complicit.
And you're right, this has become like a drug to her. She's scared of losing Kondo because she's afraid of everything that comes with that. Her friend introduced her to someone who abuses and manipulates, and she fell for him. Not just for the person, but for the power, the status, and the thrill of sneaking around with someone like that behind Eiji’s back.
So when you lay it all out, she’s not much better than Kondo. She might not have thrown the first punch, but she watched him bleed. She knew what was happening and stayed silent. Not out of confusion or indecision, but out of fear. She's terrified of what telling the truth might cost her. She thinks that what happened to Eiji could just as easily happen to her.
Rather than risk that, she keeps quiet. She lets him suffer while she reaps the benefits. That’s not just weakness, that’s cruelty. For someone who was his childhood friend, his first girlfriend, his first love, to stand by and watch this happen?
That's evil. Whether she sees it as a drug or not, whether she regrets it or not, she knew what she was doing. I can acknowledge that she’s addicted now, but addiction doesn’t erase what she’s done. And it definitely doesn’t excuse it.
Yup, not limited to Japan though. Worse, if the victims stands up for themselves they are the ones getting in trouble. It does not matter if the bully is a nobody or an offspring of a politician or businessman.yes most of this is unironically if schools actually did they fucking jobs and took bullying seriously which is and always has been a problem in Japan where many schools drop the ball and rather protect they imagine
So the school has no more soccer club? And the team is supposed to compete in the Interhigh?Yes, the entire soccer club get disbanded. They are that thorough in their punishment.
Even his (Kondo) own mother doesn't want to bail him out (tho their family is already bankrupt). His (Kondo's) own lawyer hated him alsoNGL, after seeing this smug asshole glorifying himself so much, i was thinking a really strong punch in the gut would be Eiji going up to him and thanking him after all of this is over. The dude "helped" him get all the garbage out of his life, see who true friends and good people are, and contributed to him pulling an S-Tier wifeu. Dude would be on the ground crying like a baby after this![]()
This is more or less correct in japan its all about conforming and "keeping the harmony" even when the "harmony" is a joke and bad thing for peoples health just look at the job sectorIn Japan it is at least depicted that it is a Mortal Sin to "cause problems" for your family or to others in you group (friends, school, business). That's one reason rape is underreported (that and how often the victim is blamed for "failing to keeping her guard up").
I mean what did you expect from this kind of cookiecutter revengefantasy slop?read the WN, and it's pretty unrealistic.. the punishment for all of the culprits and the bandwagons
Honestly, I agree. When it comes to human psychology, what's happening in this story clearly falls under one key category:was legitimately looking forward to you showing up.
I have stated it multiple times elsewhere, but this isn't a manga where the nuance of forgiveness or rehabilitation is meant to be considered for the perpetrators of Eiji's abuse. It is 100% a revenge fantasy that's gearing up to absolutely ruin the day of everyone who had a hand in hurting him, and that actually happens with him mostly separate from the mechanisms of punishment (strangely, carried through people like....the teachers??? how strange lol)
But also as you stated - even those you might want to call "the victims" alongside Eiji were just as complicit as Kondo, if not to the same extent or scope. The other classmates were roped in, and then when given a chance to fess up, hid their involvement out of fear of punishment until they were caught anyway.
And Miyuki holds a unique space in the whole "at fault" diagram. Yes, she was seduced and manipulated by Kondo, but she also was aware of what she was doing the entire time, as you said. Not once did she actually stop and take action when she could have solved all of this by just stepping forward and being willing to accept the consequences of what she'd done to Eiji - and I guarantee that if she had done so sooner, they would have been far less egregious than they are now.
And someone else pointed out - but the timeline is actually super truncated for the entire series of incidents - like, a couple weeks, tops. In terms of that sort of fast turnaround, everyone realizing the revolting levels of cruelty that Miyuki exhibited in first ruining Eiji's life, and then perpetuating by complicit silence out of selfish fear and pleasure-seeking, are going to be feeling extreme emotions of negativity toward her that are fresh because the incidents are fresh. There's no time to seek rehabilitation because not enough time has passed out of the "hot zone" of new, raw anger and indignation.
Given months, maybe things could start settling down. She'd be better off moving away entirely, because I also think that enough people would seek to make someone the scapegoat that she becomes an easy target, because she's the last person who should have done this to Eiji. So the fact that she's the one who was complicit with Kondo's abuse toward her childhood friend carries that extra layer of betrayal that will make people see red and demand blood.
I'm not saying that's correct. But it's incredibly understandable from a human psychology standpoint. And the manga cares less about the justice for people like her than it does showcasing what happens when people specifically like her are hurting the ones they're supposed to love, for shit reasons, and the consequences that arise from that.
Contrasting a person’s past and present behavior to track growth, regression, or inconsistency.
Yeah i know, but he is still not broken enough imo. Eiji confronting him like he did Miyuki would be a great closure for the revenge part of the story. I wouldn't mind even if Endo did it, maybe that would be even better when you think about it.Even his (Kondo) own mother doesn't want to bail him out (tho their family is already bankrupt). His (Kondo's) own lawyer hated him also