Imagine Saotome's surprise in about 3 years when he's an incel crying that no one ever really loved him and someone very serious comes up to him and says, "Man, what was it like with all those girls completely in love with you?" and Saotome goes, "haha no they didn't really like me. They all just fawned all over me every chance they got and wanted to spend every waking moment with me and asked me out on dates and came over to my house and kept trying to be alone with me in my room and kept dragging me around and kept getting picked on for being in love with me because they were JUST friends." That really serious guy then grabs him by the collar, puches Saotome square in the face and says, "No, they REALLY loved you, like, REALLY. Everyone else saw it except you. EVERYONE." And this dense as fuck MC idiot goes, "..." "......" ".........." "......wait. Oh crap. Really? SHIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTT!"
That's headsplosion levels of realization. Like, two planets colliding.
