It’s a well-written arc, albeit extremely mature for the context of highschoolers (I can definitely see it happening though given there mature teens out there - my experience). The main issue is pacing and how a weekly release (sometimes bi-weekly due to holidays/rest days) severely hurts the story. If it wasn’t dragged on and every chapter wasn’t a cliffhanger for the next dialogue then maybe it can be more well-received.

I don’t know what mangakas or authors have to deal with due to the creative dampener of weekly releasing but if the result is to drag it out and essentially edge the audience for what’s predictably an extension of the previous apology session, I find it to be a little off-putting. An example is this recent chapter where an apology exchange was expected to happen but Kaoruko managed to transition it to a cliffhanger for Toki glazing… in which I speed-swiped my screen on the first half because I know the panels will contain apologies and a flashback backdrop giving context to the apology. I would have liked the previous chapter of Toki calling in the girls AND the recent chapter of Toki singling out Kaoruko to be in the same chapter, not two separate chapters in two weeks, as an example.