Inspired by your post, I also followed the path of the "Lone Ranger," but in a slightly less strenuous form. I shot the mercenary, which immediately earned me 4 points for Medb. I also earned 3 points with Kari. The training with Finn was important to me because only then do the two weak points in EP 6 become apparent (not so much if you're on the Kaija path).
1. Did the MC even understand what the Alfars taught him? Answer: NO. Nightingale's attacks during the sparring match were the same attacks he was shown during the session with King Oberon. What does our little MC do? He's totally surprised by these attacks. *shakes head*
2. Did anyone see our lazy MC doing any kind of training in this episode? There were a lot of them: prove me wrong, but it was three weeks. I consider this a huge mistake! *shakes head*
We'll see where the MC ends up.
Wolfram already pointed out this plot flaws, only on the Kaija Love or Friends path, there is a slight hint to the Training, (although I don't know because I trained with both, Kaija and Linnae on those 2 paths.
I think that these flaws will be corrected in future updates.
I also chalk up some of these plot holes to the situation, what Ceo had in RL in this update, usually he is more exact in his writing.
as well on the Elea path it came across a bit rushed, I expected more foreplay on her path.
Still I'm happy with the unfolding of the plot, and outcome of this Chapter, shows only that a bit of tweaking is requiered on the "Celibacy" path.