Vanilla? That word can have a very broad meaning, depending the person.
no, it doesn't.
The problem here is that you people have been complaining about pursuing a (forced) prostitute LI using the argument that Tatsuya is a cuck or so, when none of those things are true, as I explained before.
You are on her LI path and can sleep with her or not, neither scene influences her path tho.
MC sees her leaving a hotel with a client.
so tell me in your own words: when is the cucking happening? is it only if MC is seeing it? if she tells him it happened, if he begs her to do it, if she tells him she likes it, and there is nothing he can do about it. What is your threshold? when does MC beginns being a cuck?
IF you had the suspicion your GF/Wife was cheating on you, what is the evidence you need? Catch them in bed? Her telling you?, or maybe seeing her leaving a Hotel with the other dude is enough?
Also, I'm only talking about Chika as a symptom, the dev is cucking the player. Nothing Mc can do to make her stop prostituting herself that she couldn't have done on her own. He is a child still going to school. As Ayase said, he is an absolute nobody. (Which, by the way, is in no way portrayed in the game, but what is an additional plot hole at that point? Am I right, boys!)
Chika's plot is shit and the resolution will be handweaving bullshit. But at least we get pretty pictures and a nice sex scene out of it.
Ayase can't help her because her involvement in all of that must be kept a secret (which is why she acts like a lawless thug running around blackmailing people [but they are the good guys, pinky-promise]). If she would fix Chika's problem with her money, she would be tied to a criminal organisation via said money. Way to keep a secret identity hidden.
Beating her Dad up? That would be at least in character for them, to keep acting like low-live criminals. Would it solve the problem, tho? Not really, no. Now her Dad needs additional money for medical bills and shit. Who does he get that money from? Chika. Even with the Dad out of the picture, do you mean the Gang that is using her for the money would just stop?
She is a valuable asset to them. It would just mean they can make even more money with her cutting out the middleman (her dad).
So what options remain? Taking out the Gang that is behind all that. Sure MC and his merry band of bandits have some powers, so that would work. Till the overarching crime syndicate notices that the gang has stopped paying tribute. Also, all-out war with a Gang will draw in Police scrutiny. Way to keep that identity hidden Ayase.
The Dev wrote himself in a corner with his stupid prostitute subplot that's just there to grab some low-hanging sympathy points. Without stopping to think about what wider ramifications that has for his world-building and the characters he wrote prior.
Ayase has no reason to help Chika. In fact, she has a really BIG reason not to help her. We could chalk her involvement up to her wanting to do the right thing, but what is the reason for her starting with that right this moment? All she did was to take the easy way, even if it broke laws and hurt people.
So let's handwave that away and say she wants to do the right thing for once. How does she go about it without exposing her secret identity? Will Chika exchange one slavemaster for another out with one management in with another. That would fit the "committing crimes for the greater good" theme Ayase has going. Will she start extorting Chika to keep her silent and beat down?
MC? Like you want to, constantly, remind me, he doesn't know her. Doing the right thing? Like he did in an Alley? How did that work out for him? Even if Ayase hadn't beaten the helpfulness out of him yet.
There is a difference between helping your homie in a barfight that went south and going into a gang war for a chick that you don't know. Which also fucked another dude straight after you had spent the night together.
Chika herself. Either she is forced to work as a prostitute by her Dad/some Gang, so she can't stop doing that, or she does it of her own volition (probably not, but who knows? At least I wouldn't have expected that twist).
A) Dad/Gang is forcing her, so she continues to sleep with other people. MC knows it, he is a cuck. It's at least sharing. More like NTR because it's forced on MC and outside of his control; there are no two ways about that.
B)She does it for fun and can stop whenever she wants They were together she still fucks other dudes for fun and money. MC knows it, he is a cuck. It's at least sharing. More like NTR because it's forced on MC and outside of his control; there are also no two ways about that.
If you want a Vanilla Harem game, that ain't it chief. By no definition.
But i'm Sure Dev will save the plot with some Superpower nonsense that was totally a skill MC always possessed in his inside and that magically will solve every problem they encounter, as if it was written for exactly that purpose. While we are at it, you should google "Deus ex Machina, storytelling" and give that a read too.
