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Ok so this is very short which I like when it comes to romance. Instead of unnecessarily continuing something that does not need continuing it ended off of at a nice conclusion. Since it was short it didn't have any unnecessary love triangles or unbearable misunderstandings.

Before going to the critique I wanna add that I liked how they liked each other no matter how different they were and would liked to preface that Kisaragi did have development but I will critique the extent of that development. In the end I liked it a lot more than didn't.

Critique
Even with its length it had some things that ... bugged me.
Main one would be Kisaragi's character development. I know that he is a tsundere (personally not my favorite trope but sometimes I will divulge in it) but I feel as though he should have been challenged more by the FL (Chihiro). To explain, it seemed like she was always at his beck and call. He said some pretty mean things to her and he never apologized (unless he did somewhere but to my knowledge he didn't).

I think Chihiro should have play a little hard-to-get with him; instead of always being the one to go to him. That would have been more satisfying because then it would be very clear that they liked each other if Kisaragi showed a bit of his softer side and letting his tsundere persona slip a little for Chihiro. But only for her because when he's with her he still has that hard, bad boy vibe but ya know according to the ending that's the part about him that Chihiro likes. (^;^)

Overall 8/10

This was an ok romance. There is nothing inappropriate about this story at all; this is literally the epitome of fluff.
There's the obvious and generic love triangles; so one for each. In my opinion the second love triangle was more unbearable than the first one mostly because the side girl just did not understand the fact that Onise and and Nao are in a relationship, literally no matter how much someone explains it she just refused to get it. But unlike other romance mangas, Onise and Nao never disregarded each others' feelings. For example *SORT OF SPOILER*
when Onise started calling the side girl by ... her given name Nao was sort of jealous and uncomfortable, and when Onise found out that it made her uncomfortable he stopped calling the side girl by her given name. Which was nice because he didn't let Nao feel like her emotions were childish or unnecessary.
The love triangles didn't last too long; a lot shorter than how other romance mangas elongate that misunstanding phase. Very annoying.
I also liked how the main couple was sort of infatuated with each other because i'm kinda sick of the tsundere types ngl. Like Onise made it obvious that he loves Nao and his emotions did not falter at all from the beginning to the end.

Improvements
- I would've liked to see their relationship develop past the fluff a little bit; (not saying they gotta freak) but they sort of stayed innocent the whole time and was pretty shy around each other a lot. Like when ever they kissed. So maybe a little bit more grown up developments in their relationship could've helped.

- Im not saying take out the love triangles but take out the love triangles. I say this in any story that has love triangles even when they are written well.

- Nao could've been a bit more assertive and apologized less. She said sorry to the side guy because she couldn't return his feelings; cause she loves Onise. Like girl you do not have to apologize for not wanting to date someone.

Overall 6/10