[Confused gay sounds]! Love to see it. Shiori respects Sara, and she doesn't creep on her like stereotypical protagonists. She balances legitimate respect with her own obsessiveness and one-sided emotional dependency.

God. Sara is such a good character, especially when we get to her POV /// and I just hope that Shiori finally gets some more self-confidence to accept her feelings.

Also, surprisingly! I really love Koharu? They bring so many good points of her that I love, like her sharp tongue! It was literally so depressing to see her side of the story, and she deserves so much better. She's so complex, and you can see why she's the main heroine in the OG game.

And yeah, the MC Aoi is goddamn terrifying. Somehow despite being an innocent character, the author somehow frames her into one of the scariest and worst people in the novel. Props to them honestly. Hurtful to Koharu, stalkerish to Shiori, and we won't even begin talking about what happens to Sara.

It is honestly heartbreaking reading about the yandere's story and just how much she was pushed to get to the point she is in.

Most of the early chapters revolve around Shiori trying to prevent Aoi the game's MC to meet Sara and then her avoiding Aoi to trigger her own flags. This backfires because Aoi gets interested for that exact reason. She gets the yandere Koharu's and around chapter 70 they finally talk about how Shiori is not interested in Aoi because she already loves Sara. First Koharu is quite hostile towards Shiori and by the second time, Aoi has already fallen in love with her so Koharu gives up on capturing her own childhood friend. Shiori and Koharu became sort of friends through this. Aoi confesses to Shiori and she properly rejects her but the girl is such a "positivity zombie" that she is not deterred by the rejection and swears to try again. To combat this Shiori goes for some healing to Sara and she has the idea to pretend to be lovers so that Aoi will give up on Shiori and they accidentally kiss. This is where the author makes a huge shift in perspective and we see how Sara realized she was in love with Shiori. We see her trying to figure out what the feeling of love truly is. We get back to the accidental kiss scene where Sara confesses her love to Shiori. This is where the author pulled the JP WN card of f*ck finally hearing your crush saying she loves you and jumping into their arms and kissing their final breath out of them instead Shiori just acknowledges and leaves leaving Sara crying and swearing to herself to not bother Shiori ever again.

I wish there was more of Shiori and Sara being together, like going on dates and seeing what their dynamic would be like as a newly minted couple, not just them getting together and the story ending there