* It's very strange that the MC is tempted by the money offered in the messages when he should have inherited his father's fortune, isn't it?
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If you play the "previous" version 0.8 (with Episodes 1-8) you will find that the backstory was actually different and dev changed it for the rework (v0.9), added the visuals of the car crash and connected it with dad's death (prologue).
In the previous version the player could define relations between mc and the 3 girls. Diane's husband died 2 months ago ... and lately the mc had a car crash with a borrowed car while he was drunk, so he is in desperate need for money to pay for the car. Also Diane is in debts and the family does not know how to get out of this.
Changing the story so that mc's dad dies in the car crash and Diane is just dad's (ex-)fiancee has consequences. MC and the girls are not related nor family, so no incest. After dad's death there is no info about mc's mom or any siblings, so he is likely alone now. Diane invites him because he is now alone without family and it is summer break at the college or university.
In real life mc as sole heir would have awful lot to do :
- paper work with police, civil service, insurance, hospital, employer, bank, etc,
- family meetings, burial ceremony for family, friends, colleagues etc and
- a lot of work going through dad's personal belongings, companies, houses, cars, boats, accounts and other assets which usually takes months or years depending on the number of heirs and the size of the legacy.
- in general if a person dies, the dead person no longer receives an income. On the other side most of the spending continues until all the contracts are dealt with.
(It would be easier if his dad was just missing in action (MIA).)