Infeno2.0
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If sounds like a cop-out is because it's, most story endings are in some capacity that is why they are hard.That’s one way to handle it, yeah—but it also feels like a cop-out. Instead of taking responsibility for writing real emotional decay or believable betrayal, Fujino just dumps it all on some “Admin reveal” at the end. It's like: “Here’s a magic memory dump. Pick your flavor of cuck.”
The problem is, if Kirito’s choice boils down to “forgive,” “forget,” “enjoy,” or “walk away,” then it means nothing actually mattered along the way. It’s not about story progression—just damage control wrapped in fetish logic.
And let’s not pretend the memory rewrite wasn’t a narrative crutch. Asuna falling for Inoda without it? Completely unbelievable. It’s like expecting someone to leave a top-tier partner for a bloated pig just because he’s good at licking. You don’t cheat out of nowhere unless there’s a slow burn, conflict, guilt, something. Not just “Oops, your brain’s been tweaked, now suck the fat guy off.”
That’s not drama. That’s post-hoc justification to make the NTR land without effort.
If you want players to feel the betrayal, you can’t just Ctrl+Z their logic and agency. Otherwise, why not let Inoda hypnotize everyone and call it a day?
The ending won’t matter if the journey was hollow. And right now, it feels like Fujino’s so focused on the fetish payoff that he forgot betrayal only hits when the love felt real.
This is not my favourite idea for ending either but is one more coherent with plot line so far, your idea falls more in the revenge category and for that to work Fujino would need to change the already established characteristics for everyone and the direction of the plot.
For starters Kirito would have to learn about the shenanigans way before the ending to create a build up of resentment, he would need to follow Asuna and Inoda around like a stalker and keep the facade and in the end confront both of them or accept their relationship.
Another thing in order for some agency Fujino would need to rewrite good chunks of the story which are based purely on plot devices and coincidences .
The last thing to be done would be establish Asuna as the main villain in the story, when you saw a NTR story with any real consequences for the whore, womens they always have a cop out for these situations.
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