Looking at what's in it, it will feel like the first update of Chapter 3 did -- linear for a few events, then opens up into the faux sandbox we're used to.
nice
I can't remember if Yumi's even talked to Kaori yet, even though she now knows she's alive, and I'm not sure how "good" that has been for Yumi, considering the girl she knew as a child isn't in there anymore. The one highlight of her childhood is still, for all intents and purposes, dead. Her body's still walking around, but the person living inside it is completely alien to her.
Sensei can't really take credit for Yuki having a job (Sara hired her independently, and Sensei only found out after the fact that Yuki's new job and Sara's new employee were actually the same event), and Yuki was already getting her shit together before he met her, but he can definitely take credit for (accidentally) putting them in the same space often enough that Yumi got to realize she was turning into the person she was most afraid of turning into, and that has led to Yumi actually being willing to talk to her womb donor again. That's definitely a net positive for her.
But none of that is really intentional on Sensei's part. They're happy accidents. He didn't know Kaori was Yumi's cousin until Yumi told him, he didn't know Yuki was her mother until she told him, and when they all bumped into each other at the convenience store, he had no idea Yumi was there. And Yumi's smart enough to realize this.
"None of that was really intentional on sensei's part" yeah man thats what indirect kinda means, the thing is most of the time people cant tell if you intended it or not when judging people by their actions so i was wondering if she might or someone else like chika assume it was on purpose and then point it out to yumi.
yumi has sort of talked to kaori when she was in the dive bar with her mom after getting expelled and has talked to sensei about her, those interactions were overall positive and showed sensei in a good light to her. lot of other small bits and pieces with that one though. also if I thought my favorite relative died but didnt and only had amnesia and has been wandering the streets alone but making it just fine with their own job and life. I'd be pretty happy and scared to meet them in case it didn't go well.
but sensei can take credit for motivating Yuki to TRY to get a job, she was pretty content to not even bother till that. he was the one that encouraged and pretty much made her believe she could even rebuild a relationship with yumi and get one in the first place by talking about yumi trying to get a job in one of their ramen house visits.
as for not knowing who yuki was, sensei only really 'helped' her out with encouragement about the job after he found out from Yumi. as for kaori, yeah he knew kaori before yumi ever mentioned it to him, but even she realizes they probably never would have crossed paths again if not for him
Everyone fast-forwarded, so there was never an opportunity for Tsukasa to pay. Bear in mind -- Yumi was literally in front of Sensei for the entire time skip, she didn't vanish and reappear. Everyone has stock memories of everything in between the two parties being mundane and normal, except for Yumi delivering an apology she never gave. That time, functionally, never actually existed.
that was more of an attempt to generate discussion on if anything that happened in the time skip actually even happened or not, if they were just uprooted and deposited immediately on the beach and then did mental justifications for it or if the characters sensei, ayane, and maya lost the memory of the 2 months. as tsukasa made an agreement to pay in one week and Yumi very clearly wasnt going to walk out on that. so the gods had like two options she would either remember getting the money but never actually received it or make her remember to never go and collect on the correct day so she would attempt '2 months later' which is very very strong evidence of memory alteration and not a single time skip occurred.
because if was a time skip... a real skip in time, where the world really continued existing and they were just transmigrated mentally into the future (ayane, maya, sensei, and yumi) things could actually happen like yumi getting the money without us seeing it or witnessing it because they still existed to interact with the world and did based on others memories. so for there to be a perceived time skip, someone else controlled all 4? bodies during that 2 month period at the same time and then only gave yumi memories of what they did which included not doing the only thing that required a physical measurable interaction in the world which is completely out of Yumi's best interests, desires, and character. yumi could potentially see herself coming back to class and saying sorry but missing an appointment for 10k.. nah
this also leaves a very interesting development for tsukasa though...
does she even need to pay yumi since she failed to collect on the debt of purchase at the agreed upon 'perceived' date.
) and she's labeled as a pedophile so i guess Sensei was younger
