Well there a sub genre NTR called BSS (Boku Suki Saki Ni) lit Even I already like him/her first.
Technically there's NTR involved in here and it's called BSS (Boku Suki Saki NI)
I'm a detractor of this story because of the poor initial release and storytelling but this is in no way ntr. It's just a typical drama.
No. Hikari only KNEW him first. Ayami LOVED him first. Hikari only became interested in him later either after or around when Ayami and Yuu broke up. If the kiss scene was the first point Ayami and Yuu got together THEN it would be BSS.
Because she ramps up the physical touch when her internal monologue veers back to Hikari - she's thinking "I will not let this place be taken away from me" right before she initiates the heavy make out session. Even though he's suggested other ways of em being together.
That's sorta my point though - if he's actively in a relationship with Aya, why avoid questions? He doesn't have to give a full how they met - which honestly, the next chapter discussion where he owns up that he had an inferiority complex would have also been the place to own up about Aya if he was still dating her cause he'd already opened up the box a little.
Yeah BSS but I feel like that's way better than actual NTR where someone is stolen in a actual relationship sooooo it's fine right?
Now I understand where you get this idea. However, if you read the WN chapter, this point definitely doesn't hold:
Because revealing such thing to your long crush who also happens to be your childhood friend will cause nothing but uneasiness and embarassment. I wouldn't want to talk about my new relationship to someone I've been in love with for a long time.
So reading through, I'm not sure we're disagreeing - everything you're writing also points to physical intimacy being the primary form of interaction & validation of feelings. Which yes horny teens and all that jazz...but also it's been a few months and she's still feeling insecure about Hikari.
This isn't even talking about it in depth, this is
I'm sure we are. As I said earlier, this chapter is them literally spending time together the same way he did with Hikari but with some skinship. But somehow that skinship and intimacy makes you think that this is the primary form of interaction and that's the only way Yami knows.
Feels more like you want it to be this way.
I mean, they do have a right to keep it to themselves, no need to shout it on top of the rooftops for the entire city to hear they're dating. I'm surprise you or anyone else will see it as an issue for keeping their relationship status quiet.
They've already been broken up for some time by the time they meet up again. There's zero NTR for anyone. Calm down.
probably not, since this is release biweekly, and we still need to cover how deep Yami and Yuu's relationship was, how Hikari or Yami befriended each other, somehow become best friend with each other, Yami realizing Hikari is Yuu's original crush, how her would-be rapist stepfather is out of her life, at what did she break up with Yuu, and some other things I might have missed.
I only see it as an issue b/c he's letting his friends think he's dating Hikari - like otherwise yeah I agree he's entitled to keep it quiet. But yeah I think it's kinda weird to not mention it when he's specifically bringing up the inferiority complex and exam w/ Hikari.
B/c that's all we've been shown of their interactions in the comic, and their relationship started from sex. Look I'm all for seeing them interact in more and varied ways, but it hasn't been written yet. And no, skinship isn't the primary way Yuu and Hikari interact - hell the contrast between the first chapter and this one is that here they're cuddling while in the first chapter they're reading.
He's not, though. He was trying to move on to a different topic, specifically about their friends' relationship and quietly drop it.
I mean, that would assume Yuu is the standard dumbass romcom male protagonist when the guy has shown multiple time to be a bit more observant and tactful than that. Just like how he doesn't bring up Hikari to Ayami in this chapter unless he absolutely has to, why would he bring up a different girl with Hikari?
