okay for a few chapters now I was starting to wonder if this was gonna go down the GL path afterall, so glad to see that being restored
regarding poly discourse:
I try not to hop into comments too too often, so maybe I'm missing some instances, but I feel like when I see people talking about poly, it's usually on series that actually have it as potential. like there's 3 currently publishing gay harem stories where the protag has an even connection with all the others, so it's weird to not imagine a poly end (the straight harems of my teen years always had a clear bias towards 1 girl)
and also one of those 3 is written by suzuki-senpai who regularly writes poly, so a non-poly resolution seems absurd to me
that said, there was clearly poly discourse here, and I hadn't yet felt that from the story, so maybe I've just managed to miss it. but what I did see here just registers to me as copium, and it strikes me as completely harmless discussion. no one needs to engage in it if they really don't want to