Wow, what a plot-twist! That was the last thing I suspected going into it.
SPOILERS BELOW.
Sky my beloved <3. The effort this man put into making a world where he thought MC would be happy, omg. If the fact there were no NPCs wasn’t pointed out to me, I don’t think I would’ve noticed anything was wrong; I just thought Maksim’s route was faster paced than in the original due to Yandere shenanigans.