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i feel like only minamoto actually has a fighting chance, and it’s my personal bias but i don’t think anyone would be able to successfully establish a flag with mc, because unbeknownst to him he is protected by a very strong protagonist halo that has established him too well as the professional flag breaker, so side characters like hatano would probably just be another flag to overcome after he’s achieved a happy ending? and MC will be the first crush that’s occasionally mentioned in flashbacks or so he hopes, but as a result hatano gives a sort of final boss kind of impression so i’m afraid after the manga might end the moment he succeeds in breaking that flag… minamoto would probably end up with mayama, because those two aren’t paired yet and since minamoto knows MC’s thoughts they would kind of be like tojo and MC’s relationship? MC would predict all his relationship troubles and understand the woes of living in a BL world since minamoto has been inconvenienced by the world’s setting and even though MC thinks he draws a good line and claims he’s straight he lets his guards down and ends up in situations but will continue to be able to dodge them because his protagonist halo is really strong, but then once the manga ends he’s no longer the protagonist, so the author would eventually write a spin-off where, in a twist of fate, he falls into an unbreakable flag that he had previously dismissed like his red string of fate being tied to a yakuza or being the fated mate of a god in another world but since it isn’t an explicit manga it probably wouldn’t be something dark like ceo kidnaps his secretary especially since he has a uber capable brother in law like tojo who will have no choice to save him because his little brother would be worried, but i do think that it would be funny if he ended up in a setting with mpreg and be vehemently against it, and somehow falls in love with his soulmate and say something like “ah, i somehow captured the flag in the end” while giving birth to his second child or something haha