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I think this one's not that bad as some 1 star reviews make it seem, but not that good as some 5 stars review make it seem either. I'd give it 3.5 if I could, honestly.It has those weird NTR vibes mostly at the beggining but the fluffy relationship between Shimotsuki and MC really heals whatever damage was inflicted with those parts, so this novel is both the sickness and the cure, if that makes sense. The MC is severely traumatized by the so called "Harem Protagonist" (which is kind of dense & c*cky at the same time, very unlikeable) stealing some girls that were close to him before, but it's hinted that they never really saw him as more than a friend either way, but he still feels betrayed (and with good reason tbh, ghosting even a friend like that is kind of a d*ck move) but it's not actually NTR as he wasn't really dating any of those girls.Best part about this story is MC slowly developing the begginings of a personality thanks to FL and getting out of his "Woe is me I'm just a mob character" mentality, but even that hasn't progressed as much as I'd like and even if chapters are short they sometimes comprise entirely of internal monologues that don't really go nowhere, so that ruins the pacing by quite a lot.All in all, I think there is a pretty decent story with a really cute FL hidden behing slow pacing and the lack of a clear explanation as to why Shimotsuki is interested in our MC, it's one of those cases that I think a LN version/rewrite could elevate this story at least to a 4/4.5.