Well you shouldn't read these kind of stories based on what's morality appropriate and good with the law but instead of what's more passionate and exciting to read (and being fully aware that this is a fictional work)... To me, the friend is almost violent and no fun at all so YIKES, that's a no for me. And reading the raws or the spanish version you think she couldn't get worse but she does... A LOT
Like, I wouldn't read the manga Happy sugar life expecting the police to come and save the day (in fact I didn't read it but only because I don't like violence) and everyone receiving therapy or going to jail...
I didn’t quite realize until I started reading the Dynasty forums just how many people relate to fiction purely as groups of imaginary persons that they either like or dislike, approve or disapprove of, feel friendly towards or not, and most importantly, want to spend time around, just as if they were encountering people in real life.
That is, of course, as opposed to fiction as works of narrative art presenting a series of hypothetical situations to be worked through.
Naturally, those things go hand in hand, and readers can be responding to both aspects simultaneously, or only one or the other. Happy Sugar Life is great case in point for the latter—I had basically no emotional connection whatsoever to a single one of those characters, and I wouldn’t even say that reading it was “enjoyable” in any visceral sense, but to me it was worth finding out how the author would work through the rather remarkable—although remarkably unpleasant—situation they had created.
So yeah, these people are definitely messed up, but I’ve had friends that were worse. And some of those weren’t even imaginary.