Thanks for this chapter, NGS.
Awesome picture.
Literally called exactly what happened here in the last chapter comments.
What horrible and predictable writing 😂
I know this is a turn off your brain and read manga, but cmon, have some creativity in your work author.
lol You DID predict this almost perfectly; your words came to my mind as soon as things started seriously going downhill for Karin.
It's not my main issue with this, though. I can ignore that turn of events--all circumstances up to that point lead to that or something like that happening. My problem is the resolution: MC-kun is supposed to be the one to save the day. Indeed, I call him so because he's still a kick chick: he's still being pushed as only having power in his lower body, and he even tried to beg a thug to let him go and do exactly what not a single of that group of thugs would want him to do--the guy in front of him especially, as he'd even said as much--with the only apparent reasoning behind his absurd pleading being
his emotional distress.
And now, he's managed to beat the other guy with just this one little trick and come to save Karin--by beating the guy who fights on par with Karin, but would have none of the mercy on him, with that one kick.
Well, he'd better graduate from being a kick chick soon--or he won't, and the author will feed him the win. I don't see the author ending MC-kun's effeminacy (his barking at the other guy isn't a sign thereof), since effeminate MCs are extremely popular among mangaka--probably among the JP readers, as well.
I wonder if MC-kun will clutch his closed hand--not a fist--to his chest in worry over Arai's wellbeing in the next chapters.
Best girl gives the kind of hugs you don't want if you make her open her eyes.