The first chapter I thought this might be fun. Now I'm not so sure. It kind of feels like the old style behavior modification treatment the psychogists gave gay people, to try to make them straight, only in reverse. I also don't like how Fuwa keeps pushing the money in Marika's face to make her do things she doesn't want to do. It gives the story a bit of rape-y vibe.
It's not really like that. Marika was always gay but she's deep in the closet and all Aya is doing is making her admit it (and choosing her as her girlfriend). Aya has a fine tuned Gaydar and knows Marika was gonna do some stupid shit, so she took advantage of that to try and show her da wae. Her methods, however, are pretty dubious but it's not like Marika can't just leave the situation since (at least in the LN) Aya makes it clear that she could just take the money and not do any work. Marika stays because, deep down, it's what she wants but she's a prideful tsundere and admitting that she's been wrong would be a blow to her ego and invalidate all of the energy she's spent protesting. The reason it feels rapey, tho, is just cuz dubcon and tsundere don't go well together.
I'm sure that the author was going for something benign. Howevere it's hard for me to ignore the similarities between Aya's tactics and the 50's style psych treatments of gay people, and stories I've heard about Girls Gone Wild producers practices of isolating girls and pressuring them into doing things they don't want by waving money in their face.
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