!!! this story is so....... it made me feel so many emotions. i played this vn originally to take my mind off of things, but i ended up playing for more than an hour.
SPOILERS!!
im really both.... horrified and perplexed and also extremely at awe at how you write MC. im scared of MC, honestly. when you said mc wasn't a good person I genuinely thought of grey morality at most, but i really wasn't expecting a fully fleshed out bully for (at least, in MC's perspective) a helpless naive puppy. I felt so bad honestly, I felt genuine moral questioning over my fictional actions and thoughts, as if I was truly thinking such evil thoughts. I hated MC a lot, and that's a compliment for your writing.
Naturally I chose the 'kindest' options because of how bad I felt for Hoshino. In real life, I'd probably be actually friends with a guy like him. The more I played, the more I realized how fucked up and pitiful both sides are, it's just extremely... confusing for my emotions to process all of this. Both have suffered with so much abuse and yet handled it in a way that I'd say is like the two sides of the same coin. Both are lucid with their actions, and they both don't have any means to become better. They've fully accepted the results of the abuse they have received (or done) and they welcome it with open arms to the point that I question;
If abuse is in neither's system, who are they really? Can they even be a person out of the cycle of abuse anymore? It's hard to imagine.
When they're apart, all hell breaks loose. When they're together, they might as well as spiral and kill whatever remains of each other, whether metaphorically or literally.
As I'm writing this, I have yet to do the True ending (I was stupid and didn't track my progress, hehe). But I can feel the excitement, dread, and fear all muddling into adrenaline. I can't wait to see more of your works.
EDIT: I finished playing. True ending and everything........ ah im so depressed.