As much as I wish this were a rare case of lgbt representation in a shoujo/Josei manga, I think he’s projecting his first love onto him because he looks so much like his first love.
I feel like she’s pulling the woe is me card on Naruse. She can also rely on the school counselor and get child services involved because she’s being neglected. She’s placing her emotional baggage on a guy she hardly knows instead of getting help from a professional so I can’t feel sympathy for her.
I feel like the love rival is extremely 2 faced and is actually just acting and lying 24/7 like he is actually just a really manipulative narcissistic person.
The ring that the fake saint gave her in the beginning might have swapped their statuses? Like how could the saint be the saint if she couldn’t heal people before the spirit taught her how to heal?