shit
mc is literally me three years ago, he just needs to find the right people (his people) to talk to, who he doesn't need to be fake around. in this case it turns out hanamitsuji is his right person.
ALSO
damn this is good. it looks like generic shit at first but it really isn't, thanks to how self-aware it is. the meta aspect allows it to acknowledge that many titles are escapist, and so it actually addresses the issue a lot of its audience probably faces (or at least i did), which is solitude through lack of social skill.
its generic opening might actually be a mastermind move by the author to capture the audience represented by the mc.