I'd like to throw my hat into the ring for who I think is next in Pareidolia's sights. The one who He deemed as 'deserving'.
When I think of people 'deserving of punishment' in Lessons In Love out of the main girls, my mind drifts immediately to Otoha and Nodoka. However, Nodoka we've already fucked and Otoha feels almost too obvious... After some of the interactions in 0.39 and a bit of my second playthrough of the game, something kind of clicked in my mind for me.
We're under the impression that Pareidolia is the one passing judgement on this person, correct? On whether or not they 'deserve' to be sexually assaulted by Sensei? Well, what if we're wrong? What if we have it backwards? What if instead the person we're dealing with... feels they
themselves deserve anything negative thrown their way?
Yup. I believe it's gonna be Io... She sees
herself as more 'deserving' of negativity and punishment than anyone else, no? It would be a fucked up kind of foreshadowing too if that's the case. To go from the reveal we had of Io's past in the latest update, to have to endure something in a similar vain at the hands of someone she looks up to... Man... That would be hard to watch.
I wasn't certain of any of this until my second playthrough, and sure, maybe some of this shit is coincidental, but...
It would certainly make sense...
And why would Io 'deserve' what was coming to her? Well... obviously no one deserves to be assaulted like that, but we do have plenty of evidence of Io being a not so pleasant person.
Tl;dr - Io's totally next.