honestly?? the fact that he fell in love with the person he used for his own entertainment is poetic justice. he manipulated, emotionally and, to an extent, sexually abused shinobu, and his punishment should be unyielding imo. shinobu deserves to move on and heal
This chapter actually makes me so upset, like, I don't even really want Shizuka and Mio to be together at this point. Since the beginning, Shizuka has treated Mio like her own personal consolation prize, and kept her on the back-burner in case things with Kaoru didn't work out. And now that Kaoru's found someone else and Shizuka doesn't have a chance anymore, she wants to run back to Mio, and it's her own damn fault it isn't an option anymore. And then, knowing how much she's hurt Mio, she STILL refuses to take any responsibility and try and make it up to her! She just manipulates this girl who loves her into taking her back, even when she hasn't done anything to apologize or explain herself. Poor Mio : (