Serious question, why does the mc panic at the end of episode 8 even if he isn’t sage’s fuck buddy and didn’t sleep with jade? Like boo fucking hoo your teacher is the mother of the girl you rejected. What’s the big deal?
This has been discussed quite a lot. I'll give you my most recent pondering on the matter.
We have something of a misconception here. We compare the best situation to the worst, but even the best is worthy of "Oh fuck". MC does not know the way the situation happens in the parallel realities and can't think: "At least I didn't punch Tybalt and fuck Jade while her husband was behind the door and she was threatening to divorce him".
Even at best Tybalt will see MC as an enemy and Jade will be the woman whose advances MC scorned. The only way Jade won't hate his guts is if you are on the Others path and she is in the harem, but in that case the man whose help Maya needs is the one MC has cucked.
Sure getting violent with Tybalt and tossing Jade aside for Sage is much worse, but there is no way to play the game where you aren't a thorn in the Burke boys' side and thus "Oh fuck".