What a disaster update 0.4 should be removed, it decimated relationships unnecessarily. MC and friends were already in hard times struggling especially with MC parents being killed. This latest update was completely unhinged. When it was written the developer was either far too depressed or dropping acid, or both. It is bipolar from previous chapters and overtly too deep to try and be able to justify it. My god, decimating all the relationships like this for any other VN would be unrecoverable. Worst part is MC and Mariams relationship being decimated 3 times over (even corrupted by "friends" ffs) was the hardest to swallow. It can not recover without overhauling this last update. Heathers reintroduction and build up was utterly god awful and pointless, even the latest dev update basically said "its never meant to exist" (in more words), wtf. Reg MC relationship had so much potential as a comeback arc, but that one was killed off again unrecoverable as well.
Roger Ebert called this writers trap "the idiot plot”.
There is NO redemption arc with this plot. It is too f**king sad.