Still doesn't excuse what the author has done to Hiroko in the original work.
The most uninspiring and hurtful resolve of a love triangle I had ever read! Try to top that, I motherfucking dare you!
I can top that (pun intended). Got a fair share of love triangle stories in my past that resolved horribly. Some for me, some for others.
But I completely understand your point of view. Sono basically used Hiroko and she forgave her for it.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that so many people are reading Hiroko's character in this story like this--she's a classic The Other, More Obviously Lesbian One in the love triangle in Kimi Koi Limit, and that character always gets all the reader love.
Someone above says that Hiroko's "not a player," but in Dark Asterisk she's actually "not a player anymore." A big-time ruthless player is exactly what she is in the original story--Sono comes into the lesbian bar crying about her lost love, and Hiroko explicitly picks her up for a one-night stand because she looks like "trouble," and to Hiroko that looks like fun. From the very beginning of their relationship Hiroko knows that Sono is explicitly totally in love with Sato. (All this is in Chap.5)
Hiroko's problem is that she falls for Sono the way Sono has fallen for Sato; Hiroko thinks, "No matter who she likes, I wouldn't want to let her go."
So sure, Sono is a freeloader, but her emotional relationship with Hiroko is a pretty honest one.