I think we will never know or fully understand what is the meaning of the ending, and I'm fairly sure that even the author doesn't know. Considering the author's other works, I think Ruri will still be together with Megumi while keeping a FWB relationship with Hime. This author has a thing for complicated/fucked-up relationship like this.

I don't find that to be a satisfying answer, though. Why go through the effort to put together and then dramatically break the sisyphus symbolism if not to signify that something changed? I agree that it being complicated and fucked up and tensely ambiguous is part of the point, but saying the author doesn't know what she meant to depict at the end is doing a pretty serious disservice to a pretty excellent work. It's kind of disrespectful to the mangaka honestly, this is a work obviously created with intention.

I spent entirely too much time reading this doujin over and over again, and it was singlehandedly the thing that got me to try Hasunosora as a LL property so...let me throw my hat in the ring with my interpretation.

So yes, the thing breaking at the end is the sisyphus boulder. I wish I had a bit more cultured knowledge to explain how this ties into the narrative as a whole. But that's what broke.

A lot of people came into this doujin with little to no knowledge of Hasunosora or what's going on there. Hasunosora is better known as "The V-Tuber Love Live" in the west. This school doesn't do one big idol group, but rather a bunch of smaller subunits as their musicians. In Hasu, Megumi and Rurino formed an idol group called Mira-Cra Park as a duet. They also, canonically, have something yuri going on. They're childhood friends and Megumi in particular has made comments about how she loves Rurino (?) and something about them dressing up as a princess and prince (?) ... Basic context is that they're basically official without being official. Or at the very least extreme yuribait. Hime was a fan of the two before she was introduced into the series properly (you can see her commenting on their livestreams). She's a big Mira-Cra Oshi, and when Megumi graduated, she joined with Rurino.

I think this is pretty important context, specifically for the Sisyphus boulder metaphor. It's my belief that the boulder isn't about Hime trying to keep her feelings for Rurino hidden, but about maintaining the status quo.

So this mess of a chapter.

It starts off with Megumi coming back without warning, which is meant to throw off both Hime and Rurino (but we're only in Hime's POV so we don't understand that entirely yet). Megumi in this chapter, although Hime (and the audience) believes her have "the advantage" in this situation, is quite insecure about this budding relationship between Hime and Rurino. That's why she invites Hime to have a threesome with her and Rurino, as well as why she comments "You must know now that Ruri-chan will only ever look my way" to Hime. Although she dresses it up pretty confidently, she came back to stake her claim to all three of them that Rurino is hers.

However, even though Chapter 3 happened with the phone sex, we still see in Chapter 4 that Rurino can't stop herself (yeah okay...) from having sex with Hime even when Hime says no. We also see in Chapter 5 that Megumi comments that her and Rurino hadn't had sex at all while she was there. Another reason why Megumi invites Hime to have a threesome -- Rurino has practically lost interest in her physically. It's also mentioned somewhere in the beginning that Rurino and Megumi used to be intimate very frequently before the start of the story.

The threesome scene is supposed to be Megumi's way of establishing dominance. That even though Rurino and Hime are fuckbuddies, she's still the one who owns Rurino. That's why you see Rurino pounce on Megumi first, and raw, and she comes inside her. That’s why Megumi starts crying when her and Rurino are in the act. That's also why, if you pay attention, during the RuriHime parts of those scenes, Megumi is distant and removed to the side for the most part. When it's RuriMegu, Hime is usually close by. (I can't believe I analyzed these porn scenes for their narrative purposes but...they're there). I don't know if the whole threesome thing is supposed to be a competition between Megumi and Hime, because I kind of read it like Megumi expected to win before they even began and Hime gave up trying to win early on. something about Hime drawing the heart in the window is sticking out to me too but idk could just be for funs

When we get to the bathroom scene, I feel like it's supposed to call back to the previous bathroom scene in Chapter 3 (?) where Hime says she feels sick looking at herself and what she's done. But this time Hime is used to it because she's already accepted that she's lost but also that she doesn't want to let go of any opportunity to be in any sort of relationship with Rurino. So she goes in pretty relaxed, but when Rurino follows her trying to continue behind Megumi's back, that's supposed to signify that something's off. A reversal of the previous bathroom scene follows: where Hime previously was alone feeling disgusted about herself, here Rurino is calling her "the cutest, sexiest girl in the world" while the girl she is supposed to be in love with is asleep in the other room.

Another poster mentioned Rurino doesn't have a condom on in that scene, and only put a condom on in front of Megumi. So while Megumi thinks she's in control, reality is different. (Boulder goes here, I think) Another thing that proves that is what Rurino says: "sex with you is the best sex I've ever had, just don't tell Megu-chan"

I don't really feel like continuing to analyze the bathroom sex scene too much, but I'm pretty certain that the panels with just Hime's mouth is her saying "Suki" or "I like you" to Rurino — essentially a confession scene. I want to say the following panels imply that they keep going all night (or for a significantly longer time after that). The status quo is broken (in secret, behind Megumi's back, while she's asleep.)

EDIT: Another thing I want to add is that Hime and Rurino’s fuck buddy relationship has already changed behind Megumi’s back. In whatever chapter where Rurino “made love” (I think that’s what she said) to Hime, Rurino told her they didn’t have to tell Megumi about it, and that she didn’t want to just see Hime as a sex doll but as a person too. I’m pretty sure that’s why Megumi makes the comment she does in Chapter 5 when she sees how gentle Rurino is with Hime.

In the last couple of pages, it reads to me like either Rurino and/or Hime are trying to rush Megumi off to the airport. That's why they keep getting thrown off by Megumi talking about that pillow. They're expecting her to just go so they can get on with whatever it is they're going to to (more sex with feelings I guess), but Megumi keeps finding the smallest reasons to prolong her stay. That's why it ends with Hime constantly looking at grabbing Rurino's (ringed? where did that ring come from...) hand, before becoming too impatient and reaching out to grab it behind Megumi's back. And then the boulder breaks, because Hime couldn't hold herself back, and it's likely that Megumi turned around to see them holding hands.

I don't even think Hime grabbing Rurino's hand is meant to establish something like "Rurino's together with me now", like Rurino's leaving Megumi. I think it's more to say "I'm on the same level as you now, Megumi, and there's nothing you can do about it." It's like telling the reigning champion that someone who they didn’t even think could be considered a contender is the finalist they’re up against. Hime was never supposed to be more than the fangirl who joined the group, but now Rurino can’t keep her dick out of her. That Mira-Cra status quo is shattered and will never go back to how it was before. They will never be "Megumi, Rurino, and the fan who joined the group" again. Megumi is going to fly back to LA, probably paranoid about the other's relationship and her place in Rurino's heart, Rurino's going to be between the two of them, and Hime is...probably going to be a bit better being confident of her place in this situation. But Rurino and Hime still have to do lives together, and Megumi still has to go to LA. Such a mess.

anyways, I don't know. something about the emotion in this doujin intrigued me. I could be wrong but this was such a mess I don't want to reread it to figure it out again lol. if you read all of this thanks.

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Damm, I would never reach that conclusion by myself, but thats a rlly good summary of what happend and what the ending meant. But yeah that relationship is quite a mess.

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