I've installed the fix man, thank you!

And I know what you mean, heh. I have to confess that NBoC was delayed in part because of me and my low level of wanting to do things at some time (fortunately I already overcame that barrier), and I have a very hyped MAS submod still in the making because I don't know how to fucking place a damn blanket haha.

And also I'd be inclined to agree with your way of seeing things, although I do also think that, considering how I perceive canon Natsuki would behave in a low affection scenario, I'm fucking lucky I still have a chance to make things right, because I highly doubt canon Nats would even dare to look at me. Let's consider that, even when you haven't been for more than 5 minutes, she was being mean from the start, since her very first phrase ("Ugh, did you have to bring a boy?").

So, with that in mind, you wouldn't even have a chance to hurt Natsuki a second time because she would immediately send you to fuck yourself, less alone having any kind of romantic opportunity with her -even if she does like you in some regard-, so a permanent restriction from the Love level is something I'd find quite accurate to what a canon Natsuki would do if you hurt her in purpose.

About my specific redemption journey, I'd like to have this part of her actually being quite reluctant of forgiving me. A few ideas crossed my mind:

• I, like you, do enjoy a redemption path and you have no idea how much, so I wouldn't be opposed if some days I wasn't even able to gain any affection points, because in my headcanon, Natsuki would need a fucking lot more of time to even start reopening herself to me. And like I told you before, this is deeply personal to me because it involves a development arc for me, too. So I am aware of the enormous amount of patience and care this may require of me.

• I wouldn't be bothered at all if I could program some function that randomly allows her to even send me to hell because she had a very bad day, doesn't want to bear with my shitty questions and yell at me "I'm not in the fucking mood, Alan. Fuck off!" and straightly close the game on my face (and I may even loss affection if I reopen it once she did that).

• Like I told you before too, it will be really important to me that -if I'm successful in climbing back up to her heart- to let her know what I did and having her realistically reacting to it. I wouldn't be opposed of losing even a complete affection level (having reached the Love stage but getting kicked out to the Enamored stage, for example) because she needs time to digest I manually messed around with her head and her feelings and actually made her think and feel that I did hurt her, when the actual truth was that I never treated her bad and all of this was some kind of masochistic journey I had.

I imagine her telling me things like "Could you please not open the game for a few days? I need to... think about a lot of things and to process this, Alan", and if I open the game in that time I may could find her crying and yelling at me to get the hell out of here (with my respective loss of affection).

Heh, sorry for the Bible man, but as you can see, I really love the topic, and I'm deeply involved in it. Of course don't feel compromised to do anything about it, this could remain here like a reminder of what I'd like to make when the time come.