Well, it's nice that soccer guy actually IS a nice guy. I think he's confused everyone else in the story more than anything. It's not like he has any control over who he's attracted or anything. It seems to me that he and Hime and Akira will have to figure it out, which is refreshing in a sense? Rather than making him a villain or something.
I think the last chapter shows Akira's strong points, it's easy to confuse Akira for a weak character but really she's just carrying a lot of stuff and it's hard to do that. Like she understood the teacher right away, which a lot of people wouldn't. I wonder how Soccer boy is going to approach Hime now and how Akira will approach Soccer boy.
You know, this manga is a story about LGBTQ characters without being a story about just overcoming the opposition of the straight world. Not that there isn't some of that in there, but it's not what it's about, and there are a lot of supportive characters too. I like that aspect a lot. It doesn't have a sense of being separate from the world, which a lot of manga on this site seems to be. Male characters exist as actual characters. People interact. Parents exist, and some are supportive and some are not.
One of these days I'd like a yuri story where they actually meet and talk to the parents. Octave is one of my favorites, but I think it really could have had a story with meeting the parents which it lead up to but left hanging at the end. If I was to write a doujin it would be an Octave after story. The strength of this manga, despite feeling sometimes like an omnibook of LGBTQ, is that it doesn't exist entirely in a box.