Gonna be honest, the way Makoto has been tossed aside by both characters is starting to suck. I'm gonna be really disappointed if they don't end up with anyone and it ends in one of those "Oh, I don't like Aoi, I just really admire her". Like, their romance was the pull of the story for me, and for Ryuji to just come through and change everything only for that to not work out either feels dissatisfying. But as always drama in a romance manga could be solved so simply if they just communicated their feelings to each other 😭