Alright... did someone steal one of capu's translations before it was finalized? Because this one has a lot more issues that capu's translations usually do. So it feels like someone screwed up and didn't upload the final version once it became public the way it usually does.
ANYway...
While this is just a kinetic novel and not a proper VN, I personally liked it a bit more than I typically like AS stories. After all, 90% of the time, the choices in their VNs are pretty pointless, at least of the many translated ones I've sampled so far... So them just telling a lewd story wasn't a bad deal as far as I'm concerned. There are few AS VNs that have any real degree of meaningful choices tbh.
As always, it annoys me that this is one of their VNs where the GF's perspective is only viewable in the gallery... but since I knew it was coming, I was at least able to save, back out, look at the scene, go back in. A tad annoying, but not as much as it could be tbh.
ANYway, for once, I'm not bothered by the fact that we don't get any good reasons for why the girl sticks with McCuck-kun... because she doesn't stay with him in the end. That always bothered me about a number of AS VNs, that they didn't really give a good reason on why the GF/Wife/whatever stayed with the guy that was sharing her with other men, while also being unable to satisfy her, even when the other guys were not only more compatible, but decent men that could take care of her better without forcing her to do weird shit like that.
Few AS stories really dive into that, and if they do, it's only barely. I don't remember if it was Mariko or Mayumi, but one of those basically made it clear that she stayed with the MC BECAUSE he passed her around... because she was as twisted as he was and couldn't actually get that kind of screwy relationship with another man.
In this case though, the BF didn't provide anything that the other guy couldn't... and the other guy provided more in terms of sex and in terms of caring for her. On top of that, she was clearly notably more reluctant than typical AS FMCs that are focused on the Netorase aspect of things. I can't say I blame the other guy much for reacting the way he did. Seeing the girl you've secretly loved for a long time used like a masturbation aid like that for a twisted fetish, right when you were on the verge of clearing the air? And this done by your best male friend at that?
Yeah. I imagine most people in this position would be pissed and would take advantage of it to take her away...
Even then, it wouldn't have worked if Shiori herself didn't have doubts about the situation. She already have some issues with believing that she was pretty, issues that MC didn't seem to notice, but which the other guy reassured her on. That sort of thing would make any girl wonder if perhaps her boyfriend doesn't really like her properly. Then it absolutely got worse when the guy couldn't get it up with her. They don't show us what she was thinking then, but it's likely not that hard to imagine. He got more excited by hearing about her sexscapades with another guy, than he did by being with her. When they were together, he got to feel good, while she had to be with another man to get the same thing...
Few women would put up with that sort of thing, much less an insecure teen.
So yeeeah. For me at least, McCuck-kun losing his GF to the other guy was very satisfying to read. Little shit deserved it.