@icekatze
But that's more or less what's you're going to get! There's nothing wrong with setting goals in your life,
right? And if what you meant by 'dehumanizing' is "Tomozaki
has to date this girl" as a goal, your opinion is basically in line with Tomozaki's way of thinking. So, keep reading and volume 3 will answer your dissatisfaction.
Honestly, people are very quick to judge and dismiss the message in this series, criticizing "I think Hinami is wrong and Tomozaki should've done this" without realizing the story is indeed heading in that direction.
Sorry if my wording comes as offending, but I think the manga isn't very good at conveying what the author wants to convey in this series, but that mainly due to the limitation of the medium itself (it isn't easy to do this in monthly serialization), and readers might have given up before they reached the top of the hill. I strongly suggest giving the series a second chance, the first volumes might come too preachy and left you uncomfortable with some of the ideas presented there, but that's the way the author built up the story for a "critical moment", in this case, the third volume. The author does this a lot actually, he often makes Hinami seem manipulative, overcalculating, and has "black and white" views on things, while he is slowly revealing Hinami's past which plays a role in her current self.
tl;dr version: Just keep reading the LN because it's awesome. 😀