Seeing bikes in stories nowadays makes me remember two events:
-when my father (bless his soul) was teaching my younger brother and me how to ride bikes in our local park
-when Act-Age got cancelled
I don't think I'll ever stop having mixed feelings about this.
In hindsight and considering the author's track record, NTR was going to appear at some point in this story (see Chapter 3). The chapter in which it appears in "earnest" could've been written better, though.
I'll be honest, I thought this would be a funny anecdote of this author having the author of Ane Naru Mono as his classmate (because her penname is Pochi).
Instead, I witnessed a guy's dream get dashed against the rocks...
Serea's poor ability to translate her visions to Shin, plus Shin's easy acceptance of Serea's descriptions despite zero knowledge of the very concept of video games, make this a harder read than it should be. I mean, I GET the premise that a Golden Ending for that world requires Serea's...
I prefer this ending, because Takumi can take personal responsibility in not only keeping Shiren alive but also in mitigating the curse with her detection. Sacrificing someone for a stopgap solution will not solve the greater problem (look at Radiant Historia, especially without the hokey...
Imagine controlling two bodies of yourself instead of one.
Then imagine engaging in NTR fantasies with your wife who knows both of your bodies are extensions of you.
Actually, this has already gotten weird, let's just stop here.
I wished this kind of arc happened in Land of the Blindfolded, because I always wondered whether the main trio (Kanade, Arou, Namiki) were becoming overreliant on their "sight".
Depending on how this story plays it, I might take notes for my own hypotheses.
>European exorcism is very different from Japanese exorcism
I really hope the nun's "corruption" didn't weaken the power of her skills, because she seemed like a genuine expert who simply accepted a case outside her skillset.