Sangen Tonari no Tooi Hito Chapter 4 Discussion

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THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER.
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...Wtf?
The past three chapters I was so impressed by how this author executed the osananajimi cliche, and how it was (probably) about him getting closure from his first love despite seeing him again. I loved the stoic yet somewhat sentimental MC and I wanted so bad for him to end up with his coworker.

Then we get Noboru essentially saying "Actually let's go out because I decided to go with the flow and I want to experiment with dating men while knowing how long you've harbored these feelings for me." Seriously wtf? It's such a fast development. I am so unhappy about this, I mean I feel like Noboru isn't even sure about how he feels about Mitsuya. To be honest, if anything, it seems to me that he's using Mitsuya to compete with the older brother.

What ever happened to that 'first loves never work out' spiel they mentioned in this. I thought this manga was about the MC getting over Noboru. Turns out I was wrong, since the author decided to go down the typical shoujo route. How disappointing imo.