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For me personally, this story is only as interesting as its worldbuilding. It's been a while since I've run into one that presents the world through organic storytelling rather than just frequent info dumps, and the world of this story is an interesting one. Not good, but definitely interesting.First off, and most obviously, this story takes place in the distant future. VR is not only common but even essential to many aspects of society, cloning is commonplace and in fact one character even mentions how gender reassignment is done not through surgical operation on your own body but through cloning an opposite-s*x body of yourself and transplanting the brain, and there's a f*cked up social points system where everyone is assigned a rank from S to F with C sort of functioning as "zero" that all normal citizens start off with, D-F being negative and reserved for criminals, and S-B being the positives, for people that have contributed greatly to society in some way. Everyone is expected to start earning credits in like middle school and if you go for long enough without contributing anything, you get sent off to the "countryside", though "countryside" is always in [brackets], so I can't tell yet if people are actually being sent off to the actual countryside to, I dunno, waste away doing nothing out of the view of a productive society? Get forced into hard labor in farms/mines? Or if it's a euphemism for them being melted down into Soylent Green. It's unclear as of yet.In this weird dystopian social credits future, polygamy is normal, but not actually comfortably accepted by most people it seems. The attitude towards homosexuality seems to not have progressed much from the modern era judging from the way the MC's classmates seem to mock his weirdly close friendship with a very effeminate boy as being gay as if that would somehow be negative (though that weirdly close friendship was just them being attracted to each other and flirting around before they actually started dating for realsies). The attitude towards in*est, however, seems at least slightly more lenient seeing how casually MC and his sister engage in it. The only other person until this point that knows the MC is f*cking his sister is the femboy trans girl that seems she would forgive anything as long as MC would love her too so I don't have an actual read on the general public's view on in*est in this world, but at most it's probably something on the same level as their view on homosexuality.So, the actual story. Without going into too many details, this is the story about an indiscriminate pe*vert getting his heart broken, unshackling his self-restraint and unleashing his true form as the Avatar of Horniness. His first love interest that he met as a child fell in love with him and did everything she could (as a child) to make him love her back. Eventually, she noticed how cute he was when he was jealous and, being a literal child with an underdeveloped emotional center and not being capable of comprehending the consequences of her actions, decided to make him more jealous, deliberately acting much less intimately with MC and becoming much closer (not to the point of lovers) with their other childhood friend. While a normal sad*st might do this once every now and then just to get a reaction out of their partner, this chick doesn't know about restraint and carries it on consistently for years Unfortunately for her, she takes her game of playing hard-to-get too far, hinting that she has feelings for that other childhood friend and completely crushing MC's last dying hope of romance with her. Now I have two problems with this setup. One, as I've said, she's a child. That doesn't excuse her behavior, she's emotionally manipulative and self-centered, but she develops serious mental illness when he moves on from her, to the point that she has insomnia and can't keep food down without puking it up. In her own twisted way, she invested more into her relationship with MC than even he did. She's definitely an unlikeable character, but not to the point that I feel any catharsis or enjoy reading about her being literally tortured by her feelings of guilt and rejection. My second problem is how her showing interest in another dude makes breaks MC's heart and makes him give up, ALL THE WHILE MC has been f*cking his sister. Dude dodged a bullet by not ending up with the chick that has shown she's willing to manipulate and toy with his emotions for years on end just for fun, but that is some grade A hypocrisy right there.Also, a little side tangent, even ignoring the in*est bit, the older sister's relationship with MC was g*ooming, right? I might just be imagining the age gap being bigger than it actually is supposed to be, but I imagined her to be high school aged when he was an elementary schooler.