It took a bet with Haruno to stop Ayana from leaving him for good because her resolve to make him fall in love with her all over again is as strong as moldy tofu. And even then she almost did.
Using the titular convenience store incident to help play a role in Riku getting his memories back. That by itself isn't so bad (lots of better series go full circle at the end), but it's the timing and execution of the entire thing that was terrible. This entire second amnesia arc really felt unnecessary especially since it's used as a dumb twist for the last two full chapters.
It's like the writer has access to good, popular ingredients (tropes) available for a story and somehow managed to burn it all to a carbonized crisp while cooking.
Seeing that happy ending felt like seeing someone finally dump a bucket of water to put out a sputtering dumpster fire out of its misery. Terrible as it is, it was actually entertaining for me in an unintentional, negative way. My thanks to the scanlation team for slogging through this until the end. It's bad and painful at times but not boring, it was actually funny to point out all the crazy crap going on.
It never really beat my allegation that this was the author's cringy fic from middle school that they fished out of the attic in desperation, after getting asked by the publisher for a last-minute filler story they can publish.
I think I'm upgrading my rating to a 4 from a 3 just because I had so much fun tearing apart all the unbelievably dumb cliches in the garbage writing. "Shit show" is the perfect way to describe this, but I'm not giving this a 1: there are far worse stories out there, like ones that mindlessly revel in soul-crushing, endless sexual violence, abuse and glorification of cuckoldry. The foul ones designed to make the reader feel angry and defeated because the villains win, love is burnt to ashes and evil is rewarded until the very end.
At least with this bad story I can laugh at it. Stories worse than this only make you feel bad without even any payoff at the end.
