Thanks for the chapter!
Halfway point reached!
WAIT.
I know how Misaki can win...
All he needs to do is start estrogen and transition. He'd become "her" and then she'd be a heroine!!
Hareta likes Misaki as a boy though.
I'm thinking we get a kind of immortal soulmates loop where we just keep meeting again and again. Some might call it insanity; some others love.
Are you suggesting that Hareta is basically Homura? Because I would love it if that was the case!
I personally think Hareta has been through multiple loops, but he is still in a stage where he genuinely enjoys spending time with everyone and hasn't yet found any way of breaking the world/actually making progress.
So he is not the typical time loop MC that is scared by the world and desperately spends all his time trying to find a way to break the loop/get the perfect outcome and trying every possible option to reach his goal, but instead just lives his life enjoying his time with Misaki and the others and just takes every opportunity he gets to get closer to Misaki, in the hope he happens to find a way to break out.
I am not sure if he has tried the other heroines routes before though. If he has there is a good chance that even if he were to get together with one of them that the world just restarts after the happy-ever-after image.
We know that Hareta can't directly confess his love for Misaki, but that a lot less restrictions are placed on Misaki (Misaki can initiate contact, Hareta seems to not be able to), so what would happen if Misaki confessed to Hareta? Would that allow Misaki to be classified as a heroine?