Lurk more.

Lame mliquetoast MC, schizo pacing that wants to be taken as important but just ends up looking piecemeal and disjointed. Characters aren't introduced so it's really hard to give a shit about anything happening. There's better stories out there.

And we're done.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Ah. Another shit MC. We'll give it five.

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Only to things worth gooning for

You're trying to justify a half-thought, half-baked gimmick. You actually don't have to. Justified or no, it's still a poorly-executed premise. Any writer worth their salt knows immediately with a setting of "modern day", they have to do heavy lifting. What's shifted, what's affected, why it's affected, how far does that reach, etc—all of that to make the story stand out to the reader and keep them from getting bored and walking away. Of course it's fantasy, but the fantasy is not applied well, so it will naturally fail under scrutiny.

Men valuing purity and women embracing wild & lascivious behavior, even in a Japanese setting, would certainly look different than what the author presents. They're not behaviors crafted in a vacuum—a moment of hard thinking or a google search will show you the anthropological history of how those behaviors came to be. It stands to reason, then, that such behaviors MUST have come from some very different circumstances in history for it to be so widely and easily adopted in this alternative world. But I can gamble my right arm we'll never see anything that so much as hints at the why, how, when, or even where in the duration of this story.

To not make this super-long, you're correct in one aspect: the writer started with a fantasy. And then failed to paint the justification properly. Attitudes & behaviors are based on societal trends of needs and expression. Trace such attitudes, you will find a history of vehement, volatile, and even violent turbulence about rights and gender roles. But buddy ain't about that life—he wants to write a dude being a dime store therapist alongside being an acceptable hooker.

And no, the twink in no way behaves as a tsundere. Not the new "don't get it wrong, I wasn't thinking of you while making this extra lunch, b-b-baka!" variant, nor the traditional "cold front until they warm up on you and stay warm" variant.

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Sure.

No one's being obtuse to the point—the point is badly-presented, as subsequent chapters reveal.

"Setup".

The entire first arc of May I Ask One Final Thing is little else than revenge—catharsis to Charlotte via cleaning out nearly her whole kingdom of all the scum nobles degrading it through their corruption and cruelty. The rest is an adventure tale.

The keyword in the statement made was "setup". Both it and Lich Begins an All-Out War slide into better themes but start as vengeance stories.

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Reread the comment.

And to head off the next fight coming round the corner....

Netori |寝取り - Taking someone else's spouse through sex. Used in fetish talk primarily, directly infers "you" (or the protagonist) are the thief instead of the cuckold.

Netorase | 寝取らせ - EXPRESSLY fetish/porn phrase. The act of enabling spouse-taking for enjoyment of the cuckold. This is entirely for the fetish of the act, not the actual process of spouse theft.

NTR (Netorare) | 寝取られ - Lit. "Bed-taking". In simplest terms, the theft/taking of a spouse through sex.

What NTR Means: Seduction & theft of spouse/significant other. Whether a fight is put up or not is irrelevant.

Cuckold: A man whose wife is unfaithful.

NTR is a process that results in a cuckold. Can even be regarded as cuckoldry, particularly if the unfaithful woman ends up with the other man's child.

What NTR Does Not Mean: She does not leave him, despite circumstances, and does not stray again. She remains a participant in infidelity, but she was ultimately not stolen from the man.

The takeaway: NTR always involves infidelity & cuckoldry, but not all cheating ends in NTR. Know the difference, it could save your life.

But that's one tsundere. An exception, not really the rule. Even the likes of Narusegawa Naru isn't common, anymore.