tbh the trial kinda, KINDA, made sense before the twist. After? That feels like entrapment. Especially in a culture That values “reading the room” as much as Japan, having someone intentionally get touchy feely when it would be obviously rude not to hew to local customs.
If it was just “this is a test to see how you can handle business trips away from your partner, but you can obviously talk and text and stuff since that’s what a normal fucking couple would do if they’re in a long distance relationship”. Instead they’ve basically done everything EXCEPT photoshopping sex scenes to make the other party think their partner is cheating on them.
It’s fucked up, especially for highschool students. Mad props to Ayu and Kaji for rightfully fucking things up with the “trial”.