hmmm... I thought it was pretty obvious the narrative was going in this direction since you could tell how uncomfortable Hara was when she saw that old classmate of hers. You could even kind of argue that she was accused of raping her friend too by the way she defended herself when Kozuka seemed like she was leaning towards accusing Hara to raping her. But, that's just a made-up backstory of mine using imagery and diction. Come to think of it, our English classes teaches us to do that (that damned plant in Raisin in the Sun), so I don't know, it's just kind of hard wired into us.
Hara was also uncomfortable holding hands in public too. And she did get mad at MC assuming she will take advantage of MC when she's sleeping (when they were talking about the contract of living together). So maybe that did happen but we dont have all the pieces yet, so best to wait it out.
Also about the consent thing, I don't think we'll ever get definite closure on how exactly it went down, but in the first chapter Hara said she gave her consent. I don't think it makes sense logically to enter someone's home and start drinking if they didn't say "I'll let you do me", unless Hara let them drink on purpose before she asked for consent (but that would make her a secret villain and judging from how she acts so far, that doesn't seem to be the case). Adding onto the possibility of Kozuka giving consent before drinking is she could've said she wanted to drink before the deed, since she's "straight". Although this could very likely be the case, it still does mean that GendoIkari's statement about it being extortion is true, whether or not Hara got consent while Kozuka was sober or drunk.
Well from the first chapter, MC was already drinking, and from the flashback hara was explaining the contract to MC. It didnt seem like it was hara intention to end up sleeping with her. And from the looks of MC state of being and mind, i think hara just really wanted to help MC. Which is why she created the contract. She could had kicked MC out, but there wouldnt be a story. And honestly, Hara being there actually helps MC get back on her feet and focus on getting a job than to continue sulking. Also, I think hara knows MC sucks at housework from the way the apartment looked like and after day one from cleaning up the rooms. So Emotional responses seemed like the only service MC can really do and hara probably preferred that too.
I'm sure the author didn't think about it this deeply though, so it's all in vain.
Yeah agreed, but to me it's still a good story. There's still a lot of missing pieces so I wont let it bother me that much.