Didn't he refuse to go out with the kouhai because he had feelings for another girl? It seemed inconsistent to me that, given he would not go out with a girl because he had feelings for another, that he would then have sex with a woman he barely knew. I could compare that with better written set-ups but I'm too tired.
Well, didn't she say she would have rejected him if he confessed when she first learned that he tried to get into the same school as her?
I said what you said before, is the definition of it "Loving someone, while being physically with someone else", i didnt say they're dating.
Nah this how I feel rn 😭 this supid bitch could die and I'd suggest adding the comedy tag cause that'd be the funny and only thing this manga can do right
I don’t even know why I read the updates anymore, just hoping that it will turn out it was a dream or some shii…I’m finished
He literally is SHOWING and not telling you how we got to where we are. The justification is he's a teenage boy who does stupid stuff just like every other horny teenage boy. And once he got to having to go through with it, he couldn't. The lack of self awareness in this comment section is actually astounding.
The perfect response to this chapter (and arc).
The one thing that we know for certain about Yuu's feelings is that he had an inferiority complex towards Hikari. He got smacked in the face with the idea the rivalry he cooked up in his head was one-sided and he couldn't compare to her. Hikari didn't even know that he applied to the same school at that time. Aya was there to comfort him after the test and after the result posting. I don't think it's that farfetched that he would have gone with the comforting and playful senpai, from the outside, when all of his plans went wrong. Knowing Aya's persepective colors all the interactions they have, but without seeing how she interacted with Hikari, I don't think we would have seen that she's putting up a front in her own head. Just like how Yuu apparently changed in the half year gap, Aya changed as well. With this chapter we already see that they're licking each others wounds, there's probably more in store. I think the ambiguity in Yuu's "love" for Hikari is pretty intentional and it won't be resolved till we get his arc or something more direct from him.
Yeah, this is my main issue with it.
That definitely sounds like she wasn't in love with him. You are not in love if you've never had the thought of love cross your mind.
she will give birth and force the child into early labor to help pay back the debt her mom left her when she got abandoned by the step-douche.
A lot of people aren't sympathetic to Aya simply because she exists as a possible love rival to Hikari. The backlash didn't start with her narration dump in chapter 22, it started with her kissing Yuu in chapter 21. You can check the thread, people start complaining about NTR by page 2. If people came here for Yom I'm not sure why they are surprised, the main gag and plot of Ganbare Douki-Chan is Douki-chan getting jealous and fearful of the other girls getting with the male lead before she could. One of the characters in that series is similar to Aya here. She even has a scene with the male lead that's similar to one in this chapter. Maruto Fumiaki is apparently known for these kinds of stories too, but I've never read any of his so I can't say for sure. A lot of people wanted a straightforward childhood friend romance story, and got upset when it wasn't. The story is still not over and, chronologically, we haven't gone past the point they kissed, so it might still end up how they wanted it originally. Well, minus the straightforward part.
Aya's arc starts a year and half before the cliffhanger, both Yuu and Hikari are in their last year of middle school. The high school entrance exams are in February and the results come out not that long after. The new school year starts in April. Hikari says she didn't really start looking at Yuu with romantic interest till about a year prior, which would have been about the summer time of their first year in high school, and Aya's repeat year. Assuming right after this chapter Aya and Yuu start going out, Hikari starts falling for the Yuu that's either been going out with Aya for a few months, or broken up with her recently. Aya might have made friends with Hikari on the heels of breaking up with Yuu. We'll have to see.
