I am not defending the MC 's actions but merely pointing out that the tactic he pulled for winning the game didn't warrant something like being left handcuffed in the girls locker room of all places , the dude's mindset is all kinds of messed up which definitely happens when you can't cope with loss and is ofc the likely reason why he is the way he is now
The difference is Bella's reasons are not steeped in pettiness but actual mental trauma and feelings of resentment towards how the Holgerson's have behaved towards her and ofc Amber with those creepy advances like how we saw in the restaurant with the old man just casually touching Bella , whereas Zara and Nadia did the deed purely out of petty insecurity and frail egos
As for the MC going along with the whole handcuffing is cause he is constantly in a zero fucks given mode which is actually kind of endearing imo but i agree with you that this weird ass strategy he is thinking off where he uses Nami to get to Sai is messed up
At the end of the day what the MC did was wrong but what Zara and Nadia did was way worse
Ha...what can I say mate ?...It's just not that big of a deal for me...Yeah...what Zara and Nadia did was a little out of...you know...
When I played that update for the first time...I thought the same mate...totally unnecessary...there must be other ways to get all that hate out of your system...not like this, it WAS a little heavy prank...but MC simply lets them, he didn't think it was THAT big of a deal either...but a little price to pay for what he's done and score some relationship points, so he simply lets them.
He could've pulled out of their hold just like that but he didn't and went along with it because he has his 'weird ass strategies or whatever he cooks up' in his head.
He's neither gonna accuse them legally for what they've done nor hold it against them in the near future events. For me it's just not that big of a deal. I'm not saying it was just a prank or anything and neither was something serious to be enraged.
While we're at it...I just wanted to mention Amber's reaction to Bella's "hiding under the blanket"...Amber should have been able to deduce that the date went well, right ?...but she didn't...WHAT THE HELL !...or she was just acting oblivious and letting Bella deal with it on her own.