At this point I'm really mostly hoping to see that jackass sage get skewered by the hero he's so obsessed with when she learns the truth about what he did to her friend.
PLEASE tell me she learns the truth relatively soon and not in the ending...
This man has the entire dream laid out in front of him, there for the taking. The girl is all OVER him. He's at the damn finish line.
And his reaction is to have an existential crisis.
I don't know what's happening anymore
It started off as level 6 cringe but
suddenly (lol) protag friend has massive tits and an identity crisis
and poor MC's grip on reality is fading into oblivion