Her little sister was blackmailed and about to get r*ped and MC when he arrived, seeing this went on rampage while she stood their flabbergasted. She could have helped him or took her sister to safe place away from bad guys but no she just stood there. Worst, seeing how he was intent on killing those guys, instead of stopping him from committing a mu*der she sat down saying that he was not Umikai-kun, because her Umikai-kun is a gentle person and can never act violently denying his very existence. Alice perfectly summed up her character as someone who continues to run away, ignoring MC's troubles and inner thoughts, and pushing her own demands onto him without thinking that her actions were actually causing him to bear more pain as he had to hide his true nature and present himself as her idealself in front of her. Alice correctly states that she doesn't deserve to be by his side as her entire existence is causing him to suffer more pain.

At this point, I would prefer both the other girls that truly love MC, Alice and Kiara over her. Alice perfectly understands his nature and Kiara, even though she threatened FL and blackmailed her, she was truly guilty about it even though there was a reason behind her wrongdoings and overcame her own trauma by herself. She was willing to compromise and compensate for her deeds even though it might take her whole life. No wonder Kaito trusts her enough to reveal his true nature and thoughts to her, which he continues to hide from FL.

Just when I thought the redemption arc came in for step sis where she would improve her character, the author pulled a no U card and made her improve her cooking. WTF? She was supposed to improve her flawed personality but no she did absolutely nothing and she was rewarded with getting the trope 'pretend to be temporary boyfriend' contract with MC and felt forced af. Ex GF comes in and tons of sh*t happened which I skimmed through but two thing remained as it is for the worst: MC's simping and author's Masochism where the step sister remained the tr*sh yet her relationship MC grows questionably.

First the author shows his bias with FL which has undoubtedly the worst character stealing spotlight of other girls and when readers naturally started questioning his forcing tr*shy FL as main heroine with zero development and redeeming features, and leaving negative reviews on his WN ridiculing FL, he made even worse choice around chapter 250 where he decided to split his story into 3 routes. After a fight with his father, he leaves his home angrily and here the choice window pops up (not really but story splits based on choice) : 1) If he goes back he is locked into Step-sis route 2) If he meets Alice's sis, she takes him to her home and we get Alice's route 3) If he chooses to go to Kiara's house, he is in Kiara's route. What is this, a galge game? Currently the story is in Alice's route but making side characters as routes of dating game is an insult beyond measure, especially after author has been pushing FL into spotlight in main story for no reason and overshadowing and undermining other girls. Dropping this sh*t because of author's s*upid decisions and undisguised masochism.

Two days after trying to ruin the life of one of the MC's family members, a girl asks MC if she can be his friend to which he replies "Eh, I don't really care anymore. Sure." Wth, author. Is this really the only way you can shoehorn her in as a romantic interest? Even if he can forgive her for what she did, that doesn't mean he'd be willing to be friends with someone who would do that. I don't mind having that girl as a potential romantic interest (after a proper redemption arc), but the MC's responses and actions to her have to make sense relative to what she did.

She constantly creates a rift between the MC and little sister. When MC was being dragged around by the gyaru, who he couldn’t force away from him cause she’ll start screaming for help in public the moment he tries, it causes the MC to miss his appointment with the little sister and before he could explain himself she goes out of her way to say “ He wanted to play around with a girl so he decided to ignore his promise with you (little sister) ” which obviously causes them to fight. NOTE that this happened AFTER he just saved her from being forced to participate in a gangr*pe. Yes, this man put himself in danger to save her from the sole daughter of a multi billion conglomerate, and the first thing she does is call him disgusting and that he’s full of himself if he thinks he’s “cool” now, and being a nonstop b*tch. She forced herself into his room using the little sister as blackmail to force him to let her in, says she need his computer to do student council work proceeds to spill tea all over the floor because he won’t complement her when she didn’t even remotely ask for one, had MC clean it up, and when he was doing that instead of work she was going through MC’s files one by one to find p*rn/eroge/galge just so she can make fun of him and then when the MC gets RIGHTFULLY mad, all is forgiven because...... she’s cute????? Like wtf. Then MC has a multimillion yen contract to fulfill but can’t get to work because the bit*h won’t stop throwing a tantrum because he said he’s busy. God f*ck me. I read in another spoiler that 200+ chapters in and the bit*h is nowhere near redeemable. Wasted a few hours on this bulshit, the author knows that the bit*h is pure garbage but some sort of weird obsession with “ the first girl MUST be winning girl” is dragging this novel. Honestly if the bit*h didn’t exist this would be top 3.

So this one girl blackmails his new step sister though she and the MC don't get along with each other and it almost crossed over to r*pe but the MC saves her while they are planning it while taking photos of his step sister in her underwear. Right after, the girl who blackmailed his step sister wants to be his friend and she shares a bento with him and all of a sudden they are friends. Fk this novel, absolutely tr*sh who chooses to be friends with someone who went so far as to mentally traumatized and almost had someone r*ped be forgiven like that.

That arc with the whole thing with stocks and companies is the most tedious thing to read through. Unless you're into that, you will genuinely not get anything out of that arc. You could speed-read it and would not miss out on anything. They make all out to be "oooh you crushed her" and expect you to be satisfied with what you read like a bully getting faceslapped in a novel, but no, I couldn't care less about this arc. And consensus seems to be the same from all the other comments