Am I really the only one that thinks the writing in this series is kind of bad? It's just contrived plot devices one after the other; first, the administrator system that was used to progress the characters' relationship, only to now be explained away with this timeline convergence. And I don't even think it would be this bad if they didn't decide to introduce this utterly silly "restorative-capacity" meter (here's a reason not to watch Steins:gate, I guess).

I don't really care that much because I never took this series all that seriously. I just found it surprising that nobody here seems to be sharing my urge to eyeroll in this chapter.

The writing has never been great. I dropped this series when I first started reading it because it seemed like wasted potential and just a vehicle for fluff, but when I picked up it again much later with less expectation and just wanting fluff I was able to enjoy it more.

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To be serious for a sec I'm guessing you're supposed to still feel Fuyu is sympathetic on the strength of how much cheaters suck, so her behavior is excusable operating under the misapprehension that Itsuki cheated on her, which Itsuki is herself responsible for, but like nah dawg it's not workin for me.

The hostility has escalated so much that at this point the best ending would be like:

Fuyu: If I can't have you I'm going to ruin you
Itsuki: You could have had me until you tried to ruin me
Fuyu: wait what? (gets sucked into black hole)

Guessing the author has other ideas though

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So uhh the princess was just horny?....

She was horny with a good excuse, they clearly needed more mana transfer, though that doesn't seem to have factored into her thought process :p

I thought this was a Liberta chapter when I clicked on it. I stopped reading this chapters back, still terrible lol

Guessing the big twist will be that the kid is actually Itsuki's. She got Fuyu pregnant right before she left for China, and then when she got there, faced with the social stigma of being an unwed mother, had to rush a marriage to a man to cover it up. Now she's back and wants to be with Itsuki but doesn't know how to get out of the situation she's in.

Please let this be the case!

Dynasty gonna have to add a new tag
babies conceived through pure dramatic potential

Or maybe it was unprotected hand-holding?

A bold reading, but there is strong textual evidence for it

Guessing the big twist will be that the kid is actually Itsuki's. She got Fuyu pregnant right before she left for China, and then when she got there, faced with the social stigma of being an unwed mother, had to rush a marriage to a man to cover it up. Now she's back and wants to be with Itsuki but doesn't know how to get out of the situation she's in.

Dynasty gonna have to add a new tag
babies conceived through pure dramatic potential

Series looking great can't wait for more

Having an unrequited love for someone you've been dating for ten years is so bonkers, I just assumed she was talking about someone else she knew before getting with her GF, someone from when she was in high school herself, until I read the comments here

Anyway guessing Oda is in love with Nakanishi who is in love with MC, and she'll break up with her GF and get with the student.

recreating atlatls with magic

Oh my god the lore

Is it gay to feed your wife the dried corpse of a dimensional guardian you killed so that you could be with her forever

There was only one futon
(it's cute how they're themed after the characters)

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Now I want some udon

This is the closest a yuri character has ever come to my height (I am 178, 1 cm difference!)
Nice
Someday I should draw some autobiographical comics about the height gap with my short ex

Kiss > Sword. Can't wait for something lewder like... holding hands.

WIN BY THE POWER OF SMOOCHING

I don't think I've ever enjoyed an "I can fix her" story as much as this one lol

oh you can just block the whole damn goal, that seems balanced

That throw has some magical power behind it too. Methinks those little masks are wholly inadequate protection lol

wanting gay friends to talk to is so real

Idiot Lesbian

That's a lot of words to say hate you the author.

I feel like they were half-joking, given the type of language and the purposeful amount of words. Was a fun read.

It's what an over active brain and high verbal acuity does to a motherfucker

but which song will it be set to?

Kiss from a rose. Specifically, Angela Aki's female voice version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aRjbOKCNxg

I… like this version

relatedly, I can't be the only non native speaker who spent the 90s and early 2000s hearing the lyrics of this song as

"Kiss from a rose
on a grave"

way more goth.

You're not the only one!

Every time a chapter comes out I'm like I don't remember how we got here

time to reread it for the millionth time

We've achieved shoulder blushing. Evie is too powerful

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There's a trope in medieval Arabic literature (you're an extremely precocious five year old, we're assuming)

Gonna get my daughter some medieval Arabic literature to read… otoh, seeing how little she cares about pre-Christian Irish literature, maybe i should wait a few years

I recommend that you do NOT start with One Thousand and One Nights. I tried reading that when I was 8 and it gave me nightmares. Also it's pretty horribly racist and sexist. Like people are usually aware of the basic premise that a king that is executing his wives so the latest one gives him a cliffhanger story every night that never ends to forestall the execution, but it's usually left out that he's doing that because his wife cheated on him with an African slave during an orgy so now he's too traumatized being emasculated by a black dude to ever let his wives live longer than the wedding night. Can't cheat on me if you're dead! Medieval problems require medieval solutions. Super wholesome stuff for an 8 year old.

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Please explain to me chapter 4 like I'm five, I didn't understand it

Kira is tired of people she does not know falling in love with her. From her perspective she's not doing anything, just existing, and then suddenly now and again a stranger who intensely wants things from her appears. Worse yet the unwanted attention causes her social problems, so it's experienced as an imposition that she starts to resent. "You have no idea who I am and yet you show up, demand the most intimate things from me and fuck up my social life in the process??" Which is a fuckin mood, though I didn't experience it myself until I was in my 20's, and which has mercifully subsided now that I'm an old hag.

Then Hikaru shows up and she thinks it's going to be more of the same, except Hikaru actually asks to be rejected. There's this dynamic in social justice circles that might be illustrative here, where sympathetic people on a higher rung of the social hierarchy get verbally abused by those lower on it because people who deal with bigotry can't take it out on the actual bigots but you can yell at a friendly straight person or whatever. It's a kind of displacement, the people you actually want to yell at won't ever understand why you're yelling at them but the friendly straight person will see and understand your pain, so you take out your frustration on them instead. Hikaru actually isn't shallow in the way Kira disdains, despite her uncontrollable infatuation she has her priorities and asks to be rejected, but Kira sees her as a convenient outlet for her frustration so she decides to mess with her. As she gets to know her she realizes she's treating her as a prop in her internal drama the same way people who don't know her asking her out do, and starts to feel guilty about it. And catches feelings in the process.

There's a trope in medieval Arabic literature (you're an extremely precocious five year old, we're assuming) where a character gets asked by a monarch to become an advisor, and the character refuses, because they're a pious person who does not sully themselves with ugly demands of power, their priorities correctly concerned with heaven rather than earthly matters. The offer to become a vizier establishes the worth of the person, and the rejection of the opportunity for more social status establishes their piety. In a sense Hikaru established her worth by asking to be rejected, because what is not demanded can be freely given. Kira can love her back and feel it uncoerced specifically because Hikaru never asked to be loved.

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Also, what kind of jerk ass elementary kid call their classmate “slut”

Real sixth graders may shock and dismay you.

Seriously, grades 6-8 were when all my classmates got really obsessed with sex and losing their virginity, while of course shaming everyone who managed to do it, reflecting our split mind about sexuality. Haha you're an ugly loser who can't get laid, how dare you have had sex that's awesome you shameful slut. In classic precocious kid fashion I thought everyone was crazy. I was like you don't move into a different ontological category when a penis touches you for the first time, this is all made up nonsense, but they thought I was the one who's crazy lol.

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Extremely understandable backstory