Honestly, I like the character designs for the girls and all... but... you know this entire harem situation is forced with the unnecessary hiding of the relationship... there better be real consequences, like the MC building a harem or a flat chest loli girl killing herself just to make the main girl realize how stupid she was (extreme, yes... but I'm just that convinced she won't suffer real consequences; though I prefer the harem).
@Jugglusjuggler Not true; it actually happens quite a lot... the fact that the childhood friend loses is actually a myth. This chapter pointed out that the childhood friend winning is also a very common trope. The real truth is, the one that will win 90+% of the time is the main girl... all that matters is if the main girl is the childhood friend or not.
The real reason we have childhood friends lose so often is that authors add them to give the series an extra love interest, but have less development for the character, because, hey, they're childhood friends, they are already developed...
@justforthelulz I think it’s because Mone wanted to hide it. For some reason - I think because it would be more romantic. She’s bad at this whole love thing.
At this point the real surprise will be Mone finding out that all of her friends crush on her boyfriend and she unknowingly broke their hearts because of it. If she didn’t hide the relationship, we wouldn’t have a story tho. XD
@Koni: The funny-- and irritating--thing is that there actually would be a story without her hiding the relationship. It just wouldn't be the one we have now, in which the author lets mob after mob hijack it. (Seems as if the author wrote himself into a corner with that, because it does seem like one of Mone-san's good ideas.™) It was going adorably (with TONS of sweet, sweet eye candy in the form of Mone-san alone) until the rest started to show up and push her to the side; I'm now waiting for the story to get back on track.
A romance, not to speak of a relationship, doesn't have to be about the people outside of it.