@HiraOmnibus I want to refute you so bad but I can’t. I don’t even know what’s going on anymore (or why). Is the MC seriously still trying to set Sun up and help him focus so he can win? Hasn’t literally EVERY ARC up until now been about the MC learning to put himself before his friends and see that they care greatly for him so he needs to stop with his inferiority complex and focusing so much on their success and instead focus on himself?! Nope? Just checking. Also I’m still not okay with everyone (President, childhood friend, and sun) so quickly becoming friends with m again and then randomly joining the harem he never should have had. I started reading this series because it seemed like a breakaway from the generic cliche harem (which I can enjoy, but I love new stuff; well at least I try to love new stuff; new stuff doesn’t always make it easy (or love me back)). The MC plotting to get a girlfriend was interesting, the twist that both the girls he thought were in his pocket, but were using him for his childhood friend was more interesting, pansy’s everything was interesting, the twist of the twist that he only wanted Sun to be happy was the most interesting. The conclusion where everyone turned their backs on him (for him trying to help them), were basically all assholes, and they ultimately had to apologize was super compelling. WHERE IS THAT SERIES?! Now I don’t think it had to have ended there. The story could have been extremely interesting had more time and content been spent on the characters (that stabbed the mc in the back and made the whole school unfairly hate him) rebuilding their fractured relationship with the mc again and slowly regaining his trust and friendship as the mc himself dealt with his inferiority complex and hatred of self and grew to realize that the person whose success and well being should matter most to himself is himself (not to say that you shouldn’t care about friends, but the complex planning an great deal of care the MC put into literally everyone’s happiness but his own, is not healthy). Could have been an awesome and dramatic coming high school story about the MC rebuilding fractured relationships and coming to care most about himself; the author could have even introduced new girls over time; some to serve to advance the plot and help the mc grow (maybe introducing some conflict) and others to serve as love interests. It would have even been fine if after the reconciled the back stabbers feel in love. Just not this fast and immediately. For guy that everyone either used, stabbed in the back, or unjustifiably hated because of the back stabbers (excluding Pansy), his harem is stupidly large (and maybe 2 or 3 members make sense).
I’ve honestly stopped reading this series with the hope that it has a genuinely good story or a fairly unique (or at least less used) take on a popular trope or any actual character development (I know the author can definitely do something different next chapter, but so far the MC this chapter sounds like he’s learned nothing and wants to repeat the same idiot selflessness for his back stabbing best friend that ruined his highschool reputation in the first place). At this point I’m continuing this for lolz and because I don’t know how to stop. If the author was gonna turn this into a generic harem series without the advancing or character development good ones have, they should have made that from the start or just ended it ambiguously after the first arc. So much potential in the trash and then burnt to a crisp.