You major in psych or what?!
You flatter me so, hehe.
I guess I just felt dissatisfied on that bit so my mind just kept wandering, and so I couldn't help imagining. Seeing it play out in my mind, I try to understand what the fellows might think/or feel. To make sense of things, I tend to go through clues, expressions, words, and events, and correlate them to my own understanding, unravelling and untangling for more understanding. Like I said, speculation; plus referrencing some stories I read and how they played out ("heartbroken guy breaks others hearts due to their own trauma" type of guys..., etc...).
Your miiiinddd!!! Totes agree with you!! hurt people hurt people. Typically stories like these everything is black and white. But this has nuances and the characters actually feel like messy teens navigating their loneliness through sex.
I was thinking of something similar but couldn't put it into words. I wish for an epilogue or side stories.
I kind of wish I could see a short extra detailing the lives of those 3 - I mean the no-good trio. There's likely a possibility that their lives are all similar to Kagami's, hence why they're rather skewed (like that one time in the fireworks festival, when Kagami tells them off and they make it sound like that's a main feature in their friendship. They appear to know what normal friendship is, but at the same time they like treating their "friend" like this as well, thinking it's all good.) I guess the leader is the type who was lonely yet refuses to be pathetic, so someone else has to be the receptacle of his dissatisfaction. Refusing to be abandoned, so he's the one who doesn't cling, and doesn't show affection. Maybe he grew up in that environment, seeing someone who clings, and someone who abandons, so he decided, "I'm not going to be like this". Seeing someone so willing to give everything to him, and in the same muddy situation, feels less lonely, even if it's empty... hence why he can never fully be rid of loneliness, as Kagami observed later on. Buuuut this is all just speculation...
While this already feels complete, and it is, I feel like there can also be a potential volume 2, because there's possibilities to explore - like Kagami's parents, How the two friends are going to act towards Kagami (would they be awkward? Feel betrayed? Try to joke a little, like before? Etc...), and their future together. High school sometimes feels a little incomplete in settings like these, after all.