So much for holding horses. You ranted about people crying NTR for everything they don't like yet you yourself applied the term so liberally in your response here that it almost losses its meaning.Which forum are you on? Cause this here is F95Zone, where even the hypothetical married neighbors of an MC being implied to have sex off screen will spawn pages and pages of insecure crybabies yelling how said game makes them a cuck and demanding the mods slap the offending game with the NTR tag.
So anyone asking if the NTR can be 'avoided' is more probable than not someone who isn't adventurous enough to be into anything remotely close to swinging or partner swapping. So they're probably not going to have a fun time in a dark fantasy game that almost entirely revolves around corruption, and where a good quarter of the content involves the MC's significant others (wife, secretary, apprentice, various friends, etc.) being intimate with others besides the MC. Anyone who is down for that content is already probably familiar with how overly broad the NTR tag gets applied around here, and wouldn't need to bother with asking the original question.
Does this game allow for the avoidance of expressly humiliatingly cuckoldry where the MC is forced to watch others fuck his wife against his will? Yeah. But asking that isn't the same as asking 'is the NTR avoidable?', because within the context of the story it is very much not avoidable. The Sophie's Choice between staying faithful to the wife and saving the apprentice from gangrape is going to raise the hackles of anyone put off by their MC's married neighbors fucking each other. Choosing the wife means the apprentice does get gangraped, even if you don't stay to watch it happen.
You keep bringing up that example with Helayna, but the fact is, Rowan can sleep with her AND still have a good relationship with his wife, meaning that not only can he protect Helayna, but also potentially end up in a better position than he was before ( well, at least in terms of how many people he's fucking). So, not much of a lose-lose situation there, isn't it?
You ignore the fact that a good deal of people playing the game are not into NTR and are perfectly fine with the harsh tone of the story, so it kinda renders your point a bit moot there, especially because the dude wasn't crying or anything, you let the horses go and went full " You can't handle the EDGE".
So how about you put the horses back in the barn and relax a little, ok?