Having just finished this, I'm feeling a little deflated. I'm pretty sure this was the first time I saw "if you're having suicidal thoughts" at the start of a chapter in a light novel - and I'm glad that's becoming something of a standard and I see it quite often when appropriate in other media - but still, this volume was darker than I expected it to.
The writing's good, as usual, and I love how much they all feel like just like young people who do young people things, with a lots of mistakes and miscommunication that feels authentic. And I love that we totally don't get people stuck in the harem hell of "I'll be your rival from now on" and similar, but that they grow and move on as best they can.
There's been quite a few super powerful moments, with that confrontation between Natsuki and Reita over how Reita was basically just thinking of himself and not what Miori must be going through being my favourite, and I was teary-eyed for the last quarter of the book.
With that being said, I'm a little sad to see the chance of Natsuki+Miori go away. They had a crazy amount of chemistry together imo and I was rooting for them since volume 1, so there's a big "what now?" feeling after the ending of this volume.