@akthrowaiz If it were a guy of the same level of looks and everything else, they'd be branded a stalker and chased off. All of this only works because she's a girl. If you re read the chapter and read her lines in a man's voice you immediately feel "this guy should be in jail" but same as with sexual harassment or physical abuse, women get away with it in manga (and other media).
I can't really call this stalking...
Since the whole hero gang knows she's following behind them and literally she's dumping all her goodies to them.
FREE OF CHARGE.
She's a walking item-shop with OP evasion.
Literary an iconic Cheat-item tool box.
Lol I thought I was gonna be annoyed but this was actually funny. She's cute and at least a bit different from the usual obsessive fl in these shojou mangas.
About the comments: "if genders were reverse, that would be intolerable" Try replacing the caracters with Nao-chan and Kou-kun from Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii. General feel stays the same level of creepy cute. Apparent harmlessness is more important than gender here.
But, yeah, real world, the fl would definitively need to stop that.
...the hero is the friend she left the orphanage with, right? I mean, there must be a reason as why he let her stalk him Tho I don't know why he doesn't tell her in case my theory is right