I sort of assume the same thing, there's IIRC a few lines that imply it though I can't be arsed to hunt them down right now. Maybe in the Steps event.
I suspect that the whole amusement park date was Tsuneyo running from that reality, he had died, she didn't want to accept it, and so she simply shut down the ramen shop for a few days in denial.
Of course, since she seems to be aware of resets, and the reset was approaching, she may have known that the reset had a good chance of reviving him.
Then neighbors called during the slumber party about the smell. She blamed rotting vegetables due to a power outage, but they wouldn't rot that quickly, even after the few days the shop had been closed, there wouldn't be a smell to complain about from the vegetables. A rotting human corpse, on the other hand...
As to whether or not he's still dead is another matter, since we've had a reset immediately after.
Haha, I feel the same way - I wish I could share this with friends, I don't know if I'm shallow but I definitely feel some things about this story are profound and unique, but at the same time, it definitely wouldn't work as well if the main themes weren't as... unsavory as they are? And I feel like a good chunk of the game is a subversion of the harem porn game genre -- like, you think you can have sex with all the characters at the start, and there's definitely some shock value in there going in expecting a normal porn game, but by chapter 3 to quote the sonic kid you learn that boy oh boy do your actions indeed have consequences
This is very much a subversion of the harem genre, and to a large extent of the porn game itself. To the point that now, most sex scenes within the story are fades to black, and we only see it on screen if it's story relevant.
