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I have complicated feelings about the wrapup to the story. I feel like I spent the whole series very adamantly not shipping Sayu and Yoshida. But the last few chapters of this book imply very heavily that although the feelings of guardianship that Yoshida felt were really all along romantic feelings for Sayu that can now come to fruition that she is of age. It recontextualizes a lot of their previous interactions in a way that give me the ick. I think from an age difference perspective I'm fine with their relationship, but from from what they were to each other, I'm not fully on board.
I also didn't love the way that the book threw Sayu back into her tumultuous home life with her mom saying simply that she'd take up her duty as Sayu's only parent as an optimistic end point for that part of the story, but I imagine that I have a very strong cultural bias there.
All that said, I am glad I read the book series and still enjoyed the broad strokes of the story. It's definitely a good read if you find yourself in need of a LN series at this level. Especially if you plan to listen to the audiobooks, which are very well done.