
honestly, I'm hating the brother more and more. a pregnant woman getting beaten is "bad news"? no regardless of her messy situation, she's someone who needs help. that's bc of mindset like this that the number 1 cause of death for pregnant women is homocide

i think he’s just very protective of sachi. raimu is a very troubled character, and the future chapters will be quite telling of that.. i won’t get into spoilers for obv reasons :’)
sachi is letting raimu know the resources available to her, and she is not taking advantage of that. there’s some people that even when the help is in front of them, they won’t take it because of their pride, they simply don’t want to, or they think they don’t need it. it can get a little frustrating to try to help someone when they ask for it but they don’t take any of ur advice. i don’t think it’s fair to sachi to have to share this burden with her even more that she has when she has already offered the help she can give her. sachi is 17 and raimu is 19, this kind of stress should not be put on a high schooler, especially not one that is so close to giving birth. sachi has already extended her help to her, saying she will be there for her and shared what raimu can do.
i think her brother, while we know is a bit close minded, is also just trying to look out for her and caught a bad vibe from the whole situation (i mean she blocks sachi just for not coming to the restaurant without even trying to hear back from sachi). domestic violence is 100% very concerning and someone in that situation is not inherently “bad news”, but i think his perspective is that he just didn’t want sachi to come close to such a dangerous situation (shes still so young and im sure he feels a bit of an obligation as an older sibling to protect her).

i just want to clarify, i do sympathize with raimu. she is in an abusive relationship, and none of the things happening to her are justified, even if her personality is questionable. no matter what, no one should go through that, but it is important as a third party to maintain your distance to protect yourself when you are going through your own stressful times. there needs to be a balance for these things.
from the get go, raimu has a bad mindset about her pregnancy and was under a very common impression that this pregnancy saved her relationship with her boyfriend. they were supposed to break up until she got pregnant. besides the help related to raimu’s pregnancy that she needs, she also demonstrates a need for therapy just in general for her life, mental health, and the way she processes things. raimu needs substantial help, but sachi did what she could as a young girl who is also dealing with the stresses of pregnancy, acceptance, and her future life. sachi’s own family just started becoming accepting of her own pregnancy, so it is a bit of a stretch to expect them to all of a sudden want to help every pregnant teen they meet.

harlequin fls always have the most stupid way of showing their insecurities. and i say that as an insecure women who was forever picked last, picked on for my appearance and watched multiple of her crushes confess to her best friend and who's a 21yo virgin that never had a relationship last longer than 2 weeks.

it's obvious that the writer know absolutely nothing about dyslexia, bc first of all, there's a lot of tool to help you with it, like text-to-speech, using fonts that are easier to read (like comic sans), extensively learning about etomology and syntax bc understanding the words you use makes it easier to remember how to write them, speech therapy help with dyslexia too, playing games that encourages you to think like sudoku or sorting games, and many more.
and secondly, if the author is american, then they're even more unknowledgeable, bc the us is the only 1st world country with a literacy rate lower than 90% and it's at 75%. as you are considered illiterate when you have a reading comprehension lower than 6th grade. Basically, about 25% of americans read worse than a 6 grader, so the fl is not unique in her illiteracy at all, since a quarter of the population is functionally illiterate.
and lastly, dyslexia doesn't make you dumb, as someone's who has dyslexia (albeit mild), it doesn't stop you from loving reading and writing, getting good grades or living a regular life and reading everyday things, it just makes it harder to do it as intuitively as others, but like i wrote at the start, there's plenty tools to help along the way. so her being made into a bumbling fool bc of her dyslexia feels almost ableist to me.
that's the problem with ppl who idolize a past version of someone, he couldn't recognize her even if she was in front of him, how did he think he was gonna find his "angel of lace". nd as if a 14yo child wouldn't change over the course of 12 years, especially considering her life yhese past 12 years