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Starting Arika's route in Bokunatsu, the route doesn't really branch until the festival, which is almost as long as Kiri's (Childhood friend) actual route, so this should be quick. Something that I noticed quickly, even though this is Arika's route, she does not get any scene from her POV whatsoever, Kiri still hogs them all along with MC. Worse, in Kiri's route, both MC and Kiri cling to their past, and their 'love each other but can't express it' feelings towards each other was resolved eventually (with Kiri being extremely possessive to MC once they hooked up), here in Arika's route, the game shows what happens if MC let go of that past and get hooked to his childhood friend's best friend/kouhai instead: Kiri self-destructs. She tries to put 'supportive friend' in front of Arika and MC when they hooked up, but the jealousy inside her quickly ramps up as Arika tells her how romantic MC is and acting like maiden in love in general, losing the closeness Kiri had to both of them, which leads to Kiri's attempt to dig the time capsule by herself in secret even though MC already giving up searching it, desperately clinging to her past when she's still close to MC and regretting that she can't express her true feelings to MC, jealous of how quickly MC and Arika love each other.
This hurts me very much, but in a good way. I played Kiri's route first and love her character, to see her self destruct like this really pains my heart, but its the logical conclusion of her childhood friend love to MC if neither party does anything about it in time: his feelings toward her withers and become unrequited love instead. Can't wait to see how the route ends.