Sensei: "please don't tempt me anymore".
Shou:
"Bet."
What the fuck was that chapter?
It was a bit all over the place, but normal conversations in real life tend to be to.
- I was a bit angry at Sensei for making his cry for help "all about her". And not being a supportive listener, even if she disagreed with it. Clearly written by a female author... unfamiliar with how guys work.
- Then, the good part, she talked about how it felt for women in a similar situation. Which actually felt proper, adult like, and correct. So again, clearly written from a female author's unique POV.
- Then.... we get into the territory where I can't tell where is manga and where is reality. There's the whole deal with consent, but honestly, Sensei doesn't deserve happiness if she keeps acting like this. It feels drawn out for manga drama's sake. Like we'll get 50 chapters of 13.1 13.2 13.3.... etc.
Honestly, I'd like to see them simply hook up at this point and let
that post-hookup embarrassment be the driving force for the relationship drama. Not this refusal to acknowledge her own feelings.
Sensei acts and feels like a survivor of domestic abuse with some sort of DSM personality disorder rejecting relationships. (
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), Sexual aversion disorder (SAD)) (Maybe that's the point.) Whereas, per current cultural standards and norms, (maybe Showa era, or before that,) Shou appears as a dedicated suitor.
- Maybe current Reiwa psychological diagnosis would put him as slightly broken for not having relationship early -- with someone his age -- and parenting children to support the country.
- Also, I'm half tempted to blackpill / anarchist / agitprop and start loudly SJW-calling her a "pedo". If that were true, my own grandparents were criminals. And my entire maternal side of the family shouldn't have been born... all 5+ grandparent siblings with 19__s-era mortality bringing down to 3.
My point is: people need to stop soapboxing about morals of their timeframe and mindframe. As they are moving goalposts that change over time, based on whatever political elite determines suits them at the time. (In WWII era, Russia offered stipends to mothers and medals to women who bore 10+ children for the motherland.
"Mother Heroine" (link).) And
willingly subscribing to that propaganda, without critical thought about context -- as what is happening to Sensei and Shou here -- gets to me.