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First of all, I want to say I was recently recommended to play NeveN, and greatly enjoy it!

I have tremendous respect for writers who are multilingual, and understand when things don't translate quite as smoothly, but you do an excellent job regardless.

I did have a hard time at the beginning of the story figuring out who was who.  I wasn't sure if the MC was on screen or not during the office scene, and had to depend on textual clues as to which character matched up with which name.  I think it was due to having so many on the screen at once at the beginning. 

Matching up the name color with a prominent color of the sprite would help tremendously with that.  For instance, the dragon having green text for his name.  Even when characters only appear after speaking their first lines, I personally have trouble keeping them all seperate.

This may be a 'me' problem, though; I have always had difficulty keeping track of the plot of short stories, but having no issues at all with longer ones.

Also, I understand the office scene as the place where the characters meet, but since it doesn't play a crucial role, it could have probably been left out.  It would be vitally important for a longer story for world building, but not necessary here.  I'm sure that comes from where you are already familiar with working with a much larger narrative, and normally would be good practice.

The relationship did seem a bit sudden to me, but I did the exact same thing myself in my stories. I understand it's due to the brevity of the format.  I would have liked to have seen just a little more character development.  

It felt like whiplash going from "Hey dude, I lied to you.  I really like you!  Wanna bang?  Are you into kinky shit?  Let me show you my entire collection, stranger!"  It felt like a Round Robin date where you get 30 seconds to get to know someone and decide to date or move on to the next person in line.  (That may be a fun story concept, though!)

I do like the twist and the foreshadowing.  It's hard to do very much in such a short format, and much better than what I did with my second project.  I just wrote something and left a bunch of plot threads and then came back a couple weeks later and tried to tie them all up quickly to get it done in time.

Keep up the good work, and I look forward to seeing what else you have in store!  (Also, Maelbjorn is my fave!  And not just because my name and profile pic.)