
Was this chapter an excuse to draw smut?

Everyone wishing for everyone to be single and not couple up has the right energy but that’s not far enough for me personally.
I want the alpha to see his day in court for assault and kidnapping charges. I want a legal story arc where the alpha gets his comeuppance for being a subhuman r@pist and I want the beta to file a restraining order against the omega. I want the alpha to go bankrupt trying to afford legal fees and not afford bail and I want him to get a life sentence without parole.
Everyone’s out here like “the alpha belongs with the beta’ ‘the alpha belongs in his house where he stays single forever’ or ‘the alpha belongs in therapy’. NO. I mean yes to therapy, but he belongs in JAIL with a court appointed therapist. The alpha doesn’t deserve to remain a free man for at LEAST 35 years HE’S A LITERAL FELONNNN and potential sociopath because he is quite literally incapable of considering other people’s feelings outside of his own.
Anyways if anyone knows the author personally I would so appreciate it if you requested they stop abusing fictional gay men for fun and try writing a plot. Bc r@pe and stalking are both horror themes and this story was sold as ‘cringey love triangle fights over the plain twink where the black haired chaebol brooding slightly possessive male lead with a shite personality wins’.

https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/i_became_the_despised_granddaughter_of_the_powerful_martial_arts_family/uu/br_chapter-209820/pg-4/
Her face when Ryu 'tsk' reminds me of yotsuba (=・ω・=)

Ughhh... One side is 'too kind' to set boundaries and the other side is too stubborn to communicate in a deeper level. It's so frustrating.
But Shizuma deff more in the wrong. Like with the amount of times he has seen Minato got jealous you would think he'd try to change. Buddy, you're in a relationship, it's not something to gloss over casually(╯°Д °)╯╧╧

Like I said, both are in the wrong. In earlier chapters, Shizuma realizes and sees that Minato is a jealous person. I'm not siding with Minato cause he clearly need to communicate but Shizuma isn't taking it seriously either. Minato should tell him that he's uncomfortable with Shizuma's action? He expressed it with his actions and Shizuma acknowledge it. BOTH aren't mind reader but with previous incident, the smart Shizuma should realize at least a little how his actions made Minato jealous. Minato got childhood trauma and I'm not using that as a shield to justify his actions but it sure as hell not easy to communicate properly when certain communication is the one to destroy his family. (I speak this from experience as my 'communication' causes my aunt to unalive herself. I grew afraid of communication having to learn from scratch what 'communication' is good and bad)
But then again, everyone has their own opinions and priority in a relationship

In what world is smiling at someone romantic? How would Shizuka know that would trigger Minato into his sulk. Is he just to keep his face blank everytime he’s happy? It wouldve been different if he was holding the boss’ hand or whatever but he was literally just smiling. Sure, minato has issues because of his parents but that’s not Minato’s fault so he shouldnt be projecting them to Minato. Shizuka needs therapy

Yeah man, like I said. Everyone has their own opinion and priority on relationship. What's wrong for me isn't what's wrong for you. Maybe because of my trauma, I have different priority in a relationship than you. Your point is valid but I think mine are too.
Also I think you got the names kinda mixed by the end there

Does blast acknowledge Saitama's power?
I mean he saw how Saitama managed to turn back time and shit right? Holding that orb. Does he acknowledges it or is he turning a blind eye?

If my memory serves me right, I believe Blast also forgot about the whole turning back time matters, same like the everbody else sans Genos's core and as of now, he might has seen Saitama as your general Hero, or maybe one of S class heroes. He hasn't yet to witness that otherworldly power of our Caped Baldy, cmiiw.
With a lot of works returning after a long time with a different art style. I'm grateful for this for not changing the art style.
True i was also afraid about this but luckily they didn't change the art