to be honest, as someone who also was in love with my best friend, this was a damn hard read. but my friend has since gotten married and I'm happy in my life, and we still cherish each other. obviously not to this level, else we wouldve been together -- but we had a conversation one night, where I cried and said I felt I was losing her and she cried back and said that our friendship would never change.
so I guess what I'm trying to say is that friendship between women, and esp a queer platonic relationship, is quite nuanced.
I personally love happy endings, and albeit it's not like explicit in other ways, ffs, these two are getting married so clearly Fuyu and Eri both love each other and that's well and good enough for me!
I think everything was pretty respectfully done -- would love to see more happy stuff from this author!