Maigo ni Natteita Youjo wo Tasuketara, Otonari ni Sumu Bishoujo Ryuugakusei ga Ie ni Asobi ni Kuru You ni Natta Ken ni Tsuite - Ch. 27

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The more we learn about Akihito's supposed past transgression, the more stupid and nothingburger it seems.
His adopted family wanted the other team to win, so they stopped him from turning up. It was totally out of his control, but, you know, Japan....
 
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Akira finally talking some sense into the MC is great. I had issues with his exaggerated guilt complex for a long time already. I mean, to me it looks about as ridiculous as "Oh no, I gave someone an angry look years ago, now I can never again be happy and have to atone for being sooo rude!". Fuck's sake, sometimes you fuck up big time, you apologise, do your best to amend for it and move on. As long as nobody dies or is damaged for their entire life, there's no point in dwelling on past mistakes and ruining your own life and future forever.
 
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I've seen spoilers for it. While I won't say it's a nothingburger, the kid is definitely punishing himself in excess. Which, hey, he's getting called out on by multiple people in the story.

It reminds me of a very distinct quote from Marvel Heroes from Ghost Rider to Spider-Man, which stuck with me; "Your guilt actually exceeds your sins."
I mean, he literally had absolutely nothing to do with it.
 
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I've seen some spoilers regarding the situation MC has with his childhood friend and the soccer stuff, but can anyone spoil me how his relationship with Charlotte grows from here on out? It seems like they're practically already dating, even though neither has confessed. Wondering if they're going to confess in the next few manga chapters or not at this rate.

Also, does anyone know what chapter in the Web Novel/LN does this manga chapter correspond to?
 
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I mean, he literally had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Guilt is a powerful and illogical thing. Logically you're right; he had no control over the situation. He was a pawn, used by his adoptive father to schmooze a potential business partner by making sure the dude's kid won. But Japan is really heavy about "personal responsibility" and "self-sacrifice for the community." So he doesn't see what happened as him essentially being kidnapped and imprisoned; he sees it as him failing his friends and teammates, but particularly his best friend getting hurt. And of course, this kid has received absolutely no therapy for what happened to him, and the few adults that are in the know and on his side can't kick up a fuss 'cause then dear ol 'dad' will stop paying for him to go to school.

Plus, everyone who knows what happened is either telling him he's blaming himself too much and/or hate this self-sacrificing punishment trip he's got going on. It's very clearly being treated as a flaw and an emotional hurdle that he needs to grow beyond and move on from.
 
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The normal romance stuff is cute, and I'd say subtlety has flown out the window and been snogged to death. I would just like the MC's whole secret shameful past to just be dealt with.
The more we learn about Akihito's supposed past transgression, the more stupid and nothingburger it seems.
He's a high schooler, so I allow some room for melodrama. What I do hate about these character archetypes is that they don't realize how self conceited they're being by thinking one mistake they made deserves this level of punishment. Ya'll are all in high school and this problem was what, middle school? In either case unless someone was actually murdered literally nothing matters "that much". It's a really annoying trait that is displayed by real high schoolers, and it's annoying because I fell prey to it myself. Just thinking the whole world revolves around some dumb little high school thing. In this case, it's even more self centered because we let society determine our punishments right? Like you do bad thing which negatively impacts other people and then OTHER PEOPLE determine your punishment. In this case the other people affected are all telling the MC to move on from it, and it's not like he's locked in juvie or is being punished by the admin staff at school or anything. This is all him and he refuses to listen to his best friend, the actual people that were negatively impacted (or at least the ones we've met), or even the freaking adults in his life. To a certain extent there's a part of him saying, "No, no. I know better than all of these people and have to make the executive decision to keep punishing myself." Like you're not Doctor Who. You didn't genocide your entire species along with another entire species. The whole, "I must be punished." bro you are not that important.
 

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