Unfortunately she's the lock in because she's the most difficult and annoying, it's literally a trend in most of these harem mangas. The best girl almost is always overlooked or downplayed at key times by taking away her screen time so to speak, at least from what I've notice in the comment section of this manga most people put Akari last, or would only make the cut if there is a harem ending, or not at all as she's really not that appealing of a character at least to me she's annoying at best as the other four are far better.

Damn Yane, you're literally giving us a name for the strategy, telling her that she's invited to the "Peter Griffin table"...

The most common gun used for assassination in the mob in the 70s was a 0.22 caliber that was placed against the target's head when the trigger was pulled. This weapon required getting close to the target but most of the victims were FBI informants at the time. The problem is if the target is another assassin, I personally expect if they know the target and their routine they'd develop a method specifically for the target (in this case trying to poison her at the racetrack... personally I think this is stupid beyond belief as they're trying to get within her PHYSICAL proximity, she's already had a kill recently so bad idea), depending on their threat level they might be very comfortable with acceptable loss of civilian (ie non-professional types) lives. Personally with her rep of the past I'd spike her a few drinks, seems they understand her lifestyle so using a poison that dissolves in alcohol that is odorless/tasteless would seem the safest strategy, followed by some kind of maybe aerosol like a bug bomb after she passes out drinking (this may take out others in that apartment as innocent casualties, but these are obviously people of low or no morals) imho.

The problem is these two are physically very destructive fighting styles, so while I've wanted Kaolan to get the respect I thought he deserved (Raian seems to have always had this with his innate aura of danger), I don't see how these two after this fight would be a greater threat to the later powers unless this fight becomes one sided and ends quickly (minimize their own received damage), because this type of tournament the damage is also accumulated from a form of attrition, so the best/toughest fighter might not reach the worm if they encounter too many tough opponents to wear them down while I can see the worm weasel his way out by wiping out his weaker minions (or other jobbers) to minimize his personal physical damage for the biggest fights that matters.

Nukes weigh too much... chemical weapons weigh less and gravity is free...

This is the standard harem trope manga, so the suspension of disbelief is already established since he's a lone average introvert which is usually one of the least attractive types to most women but typical manga MC fodder. The 2-D depth of these girls in this type of manga is the main reason I always suggest the harem route, even Tanaka would rank with these other girls in attractiveness if she knew how to polish herself, but then you always need the introvert girl in the background type as well in these harems now and then. To be honest the only answer in most of these shallow written harem mangas are either the harem route or the MC wouldn't be considered by all of them because that's what would happen if it were remotely real life, therefore I lean towards a shallow ending for a shallow manga. Tbh I think a good harem trope manga is really hard to write from beginning to end, many seem to have decent starts then falls apart quickly.

Agreed actually it's very common but most guys don't mention it similar to when when domestic violence them. Cardi B bragged about it yet there was no backlash (in fact I think it actually helped her career sadly), and when in my past I was a bouncer at a strip joint many of the girls made similar brags too.

He was more stupid than that, he had nothing in front of him and then all of sudden here's a drink with him not seeing the server in sight... especially when he's dealing with a snake?

Only with evidence, she has some on him, but unless he took precautions he has none on her... (unless he left his phone on record or still on call with the GF).

Agreed but MC has a lot to blame on this too, just that he's not evil but too trusting. I expect when I play with snakes I'll most likely get bitten, when that snake is poisonous then that bite can be lethal. He knew she was a poisonous snake yet seriously meeting her at a spot SHE picked out, drinking something SHE ordered, and while he may not believe SHE might use an illegal drug there are enough legal ones to worry about too.

All drugs can easily be attained online with cash app and some people use other companion apps as well. My sister had a grandson who was stealing from her and was having drugs delivered right up to his window (that's right... you can provide "detailed special instructions" on the delivery to boot). People who want illegal drugs just simply have to scour and meetup with the trash of society, the easiest way is going to the worst neighborhoods of the area though it puts you at risk with the local criminals there. Literally if there is money someone will find the way to fulfill the vices of fools.

MC from a poorly written arc, from an author who can't think how modern devices exposes this too easily. I completely agree with you about who, what, or much of an idiot you have to be to walk straight into this path then remember "plot armor".

Might want to use a spoiler tag for some of the other comment readers. Wow I commented earlier in this thread and had a similar suspicions, the guy who turned her also had revenge motive against the MC so no surprise after the reveal.

I hope he was smart enough to have a recording app on his phone as well but the way the author has written this story so far I highly doubt he took such a precaution.

I've never read the LN but my guess is the original tormentor girl and that guy both, though others sort of implied she gets wrecked and reformed from it. What this guy needs to do asap is a drug screening and see if he can get a video from that restaurant, he has her for drugging, kidnapping, don't know if stripping him while he's unconscious is a crime in Japan, but also some form of sexual assault.

PS: Makes me wonder if she did similar to his male friend but instead was telling him she was going to report that he SA'd her.

Well with time traveling you can have myriad of scenarios where in one reality if Uichi has a normal childhood all along he might have gotten arrogant and really did cause someone to die by his actions whether it's direct or indirect. I wonder Uichi's family's dysfunction is due to this person's interference, ie trying to stop the fate, and therefore trying to get him to kill himself before he causes the situation that impacts the chunni. Ironically him maybe destroying Uichi's family might be enough to avoid his future fate but he may only feel that Uichi has to die to prevent his actions from killing someone the chunni cares about. To me a well done time travel is a very hard story to create and tell, so far I'm impressed with the author's effort, I guess and speculate things and the author forks a better path to my theories instead of eventually collapsing to an easier cliche.

I can honestly say I've met all sorts of women and physically attracted to at least one out of each type that were healthy and not a mental basket case, except for the morbidly obese or the really disfiguring physically disabled. I think this could be said for most people about physical attraction and their preference type if it's of the opposite sex, I believe it has a lot to do with biological hard-wiring and passing on the genes.

The only one I've ever seen win was in "We Can't Study", other than that they tend to confess first which seems to usually be the factor that also makes them the losing heroine.

Technically not true in the case though in this case the second heroine was very clear to the point it was able to collapse a dense MC. The FMC did confess first but then like most of these gaslit it away. The other factor is usually the first heroine that confesses almost always loses... wonder if this may be the case on this one?

All you have to do is let yourself be corrupted into believing "harem" so there is no loser. Japan is having a population problem... this would solve both problems.