This is a really good solution, also imo
AstRider , instead of ditching completely this game. You could implement it in the next, since not everyone is a fan of female protag, you could do a 2 paths game, male and female. In your patreon you mentioned " and I want to work drawing double penetration, scenes with monsters and etc, and doing that with a male protagonist, without being NTR is difficult. ". This could be easily overlooked by the fact that August is op as fck and Mashima could do way more with him as with almost everyone else(looking at the fact Mystogan was highly wasted
), one of his powers that never were explored could be him make clones of himself, disguise magic of objects, creatures, anything really. In an universe like Fairy tail and with a main character OP as August you are only limited by imagination itself.
Cheers