Reading this feels like looking at abstract art. I can tell it's got a meaning, and there are sort of vague ideas I have about it, but when push comes to shove I'm terribly confused. It's too information dense for me to tell more than everybody is hurting something awful.
When she said she was asking for a friend, I started imagining what it would be like if she actually was asking for her friend, and she was the one confessing, and just went up to her friend the next day while she is trying to figure out how to respond and gave her the advice that her parents came up with.
I only recently realized this, but in chapter 12 on page 27, Baiser had quite a few more stars than normal, and had more demonic features. That’s probably why Venalita bothered blackmailing her into this whole thing. It’s also likely to be relevant soon.