Personally this manga wouldn't exist in real life because she's in a completely different social class than he is which would be reinforced by girls on her end and guys on his. I went from the geek group in my sophomore/junior years (the group I hung out with were a year older science/gaming geeks) and jock group in my senior year (the only reason I could make such a transition was I was very athletic playing sports with my older brother's group so they sort of influenced their siblings when I went out for wrestling, football, and power-lifting). I know I saw bullying of the physically weak and the socially awkward by what many consider the upper caste group of the athletes and cheerleaders. Even when I initially entered what many would consider "jock realm" I was harassed by those who didn't know I was athletic (plus I did combat judo all my life so I made a few examples of some of them). MC would fit the loner outcast caste which would make the girls bully his fmc friend for interacting with him outside the the least casual (classroom required interaction they'd be okay with it, her inviting him on the outing would have came with the expectation that they were setting him up to be a victim to "know his place"). To be honest he'd had to shed the beta attitude or they would shed it for him, younger people are merciless, and imho pretty wickedly evil they would show him no mercy.

He's very lucky she didn't call the cops on him, seriously grabbing her leg and begging... toxic simp behavior.

Are you kidding the guy was a simp and then he begged grabbing her leg which was the least masculine thing he could have done. Women are repelled by weak effeminate men just like most men are repelled by masculine women with attitude. Seriously he grabbed her leg, begged, and didn't let go... he's lucky she didn't call the cops on him plus he should have maintained frame, dignity, and some pride not showing weakness because he could learn and try again later instead which would look thousands of times better. Go online on reddit and post a scenario of doing what he did to her and relate back on this post that she reacted like the woman in this manga you'd see a majority agree that he was repulsive and she should have contacted the cops.

That other angel is smart enough not to even play.

Well he's a simp for accepting the situation at hand but never stay with a partner (this goes for either sex) who starts off the relationship on deception.  Real life isn't like fiction, we're not given a confirmed conversion truth, and if this was real life she'd be sent to the street.

They could have ended this so much better, he should have lost and her confess first instead the author took the easy way out.

Modern feminism only works in a world when men have cleared out the social dangers so it becomes a first world problem situation.  This is why we don't see it outside of Europe, America, Australia, South Korea, and Japan much because in those other parts of the world these types of women gets jacked by the might of some guy's stiff pimp hand.

If you don't ask you don't have a chance to receive, that sempai deserves him if she stays silent.

Agreed she might come back with blue hair, tattoos, nose piercing, and being woke and feminist.  Then he'd have another enemy to deal with worse than a demon king.

quote:  "...I wonder if Sigmund being a former professor would play a role."

Response:  I was thinking the same thing.  He might be a retired professor or possibly a relative to someone powerful there as well.

I bet she's wondering why she's an only child?

Agreed if you've never trained or been in that environment you tend to freeze and wonder if you're next.  This is why a bully can intimidate a room full of people without retaliation in many cases, sure the entire room can jump and easily maul said bully, but first they have to overcome their fear of "if we all jump him will he still take me out before he's stopped" mentality.  I'm speaking from personal experience with the only difference is that I was trained in martial arts and had a controlled setting to overcome this type of fear so when I encountered it in real life I was able to react.  The self preservation instinct is such that a strategic bully could actually systematically victimize several people in a crowd before the remainder realizes that they will be victims no matter what but if that bully don't go beyond the threshold then he can continue to hold his power.

A bully that can read a room of people is a very powerful evil being that will pick and choose victims to be abused as they see fit, a good representation of this is ironically the movie "seven samurai" where a few raiders held power over a village who could have overthrew them if they were willing to pay the initial price but too few of them rose to the initial incident that they were systemically made into literal amusement and slaves to them.

Actually the part of going to a remote island with a friend, not wanting to mention what's done there... sounds sort of like "Epstein Island".

Some of the dialogue

his question:  "...you sometimes travel right?"
her response"  "I was invited this year too, my friend said she prepared our clothes so I don't have to bring any."
he asks:  "Where are you going?"
her next response:  "a remote island maybe..."
he asks:  "Where are you going?"
her response:  "I can't talk about that)"
he asks:  "are you going to work as event staff again?"
her reply:  "yeah I guess, the pay is nice, they give me tickets, I don't feel like working any other job"

I was wondering where the pron tag for this manga was?

I've only delved into this but it seems neither of them are the least bit concerned about the "butterfly effect" or other issues into altering history/future perils of time travel.  Right now to their knowledge only he dies but this may actually be the least damaging situation as this could cascade into a situation of greater tragedy.

Holding hands before sex... what a slut.

Simps always provides confirmation while bad boys rarely do, it's why one of the worst things a girl could ever describe you as is "a nice guy" ("nice guys" are for her friends to date, not her).  Never overdue it with compliments it's the easiest way to sabotage your own relationship, heck you might as well dump her before she beats you to it.

How do you figure?  I've learned long ago give women vague answers and they stay intrigued and interested, simp they leave.  It's like when guys buys girls chocolates and roses on valentines and then she brings it to you to share them while making jokes about the guy who gave it to her.  Trust me I learned from my mistakes, women rarely appreciate or respect weakness or men showing their direct affection but they show that foolishness in too many shonen and disney entertainment.  One of the greatest eye openers I had was when I read a romance novel from an ex-gf seeing how the guys "mistreated" the women and how they swoon over it, seriously some of the advice I give to young guys is watch a few rp channels, ignore pick up artist channels, study hypergamy, read a few female romance entertainment  sources (shojo, romance novels, etc) to get an idea how they think and what they're attracted too.  If he complimented her in this bubble she'd forget before leaving the building if this was reality while if he gave her a vague answer she would be coy trying to get meaning from the "answer" non-answer keeping interest the whole time.  Don't give them certainty, women bore easily.

The only reason why I'd have a hard time buying that one is because he entered the room (ch129) with it already on the floor which means someone had to bring it in and drop it.  I'll take my $10 on cash app lol.

...actually it's what keeps her in the lead, she's the most feminine of the three and all four of them don't realize that's why she leads.