They weren't exactly childhood lovebirds but childhood friends who have reconnected after being apart for 5 or more years. You can start showing romantic feelings for her but this is absolutely a slow burn for good reason.
They were confused lovebirds, the MC loved Erynn and Erynn loved him but she didn't understand her own feelings.
The letter in this chapter is enough proof of that.
Which is one of Nyx contrivances I was talking about. Girls mature faster than boys and Erynn is older than the MC but somehow she doesn't understand her own feelings.
And yet you still ignore Erynn is a victim of abuse by Ethan. And for the ingame time, there's even a screen which time and day it is before the most scenes.
What abuse? She's being blackmailed but according to the game nobody has touched her without her permission.
The trauma card would make sense if the fake Erynn scene wasn't fake. I'm no trying to downplay
real life victims trauma, I'm just talking about poor story drama.
I thought the Fake Erynn was perfect and made sense. As it really shows how unstable Ethan is and how he probably is the one that killed Rachael. Tho from what I read in discord that scene was gonna have the potential to be NTR from 3 different LI if she didn't scrap her blackmail plans to wrap it up in the next 2 updates.
Honestly I felt the Erynn romance went too fast in the last 2 updates for all her trauma I appreciate it but all the same it it started to speed up out of nowhere
I would have preferred the real deal if that was Nyx intention. Right now that scene serves no real purpose besides trolling, which Nyx loves to do now and then. We already know Ethan is a sociopath infatuated with Erynn since MC's childhood.
I think Erynn x MC relationship has been great in the last updates tho. They love each other and it shows in their complicity, still the sex barrier shuld have been lifted already.