Story Basis:
After the events with the masked man, preparations for your wedding are underway. You're enjoying your blissful days with Eisuke as he takes you out on dates while he enjoys teasing you every moment he gets.
Just when you thought everything is returning to normal...
The night before Eisuke leaves for a business trip, you have a dream about him and he's acting weird. You wave it off as a strange dream. When Eisuke leaves for his business trip, you expect him to be back in three days but he comes back the same day?!
Happy as you are to see him back sooner, you notice Eisuke is acting strange. He's cold to you one minute and sweet to you the next. He's picking fights with the auction managers and making difficult and unreasonable demands. They can't stand his tyranny anymore and leave New York.
Upset and at wits' end, you try to get him to convince the auction managers to stay and he refuses. Not about to give up, you suddenly discover the man you thought is your fiancé is not Eisuke?!
What's going on?
Eisuke is just as sweet to you in the last story and indulges himself listening to your stories like always, even if he thinks they're 'ridiculous'. He knows you're trying to ease his stress from working too much so he doesn't mind.
He's more open to you than ever, sharing some of his childhood memories with you. He tells you about the secret code he made with his father after you showed him the secret code you picked up from one of your romance novels.
He cherishes your feelings the most and only ever thinks about your future. ~ Aww. How sweet! 😊
He's proven time and time again how much you mean to him from buy you a lot of properties. This time he's built a church out in the countryside of New York where you will wed and has plans to build a new home to start your married life together.
Still ambitious as ever, Eisuke's one main goal (other than marry you) is to find the person who framed his father and split his family. He has no intention to stop until he finds who the person is and reveal the truth.
*** Be warned for any spoilers ***
Despite his promise not to keep secrets from you anymore, he had to keep you in the dark once again and pretend to act coldly towards you. ~ Mind you, he feels guilty about fooling you too 😟 ~ So only when you two are in his suite is he sweet to you, to make up for being cold to you earlier (whether it was him or the imposter being cold to you).
It's important to note, Eisuke does feel guilty about keeping another secret from you after he promised he wouldn't. Feeling guilty is rarely seen in any of his stories (or probably since his main story) and for the first time, he worries about what you think about him breaking his promise to you.
Since you are very important to Eisuke, the only person he would entrust your life to is Soryu. Worried about leaving you for his 'business trip', Eisuke asked Soryu to secretly protect you and gives him the key and access code to his suite. Another time he entrusted Soryu to protect you was in 'Living Together'.
Aww. What a good friend he is. 👦👦
Since 'Hidden Choices', Eisuke seems to treasure your life more so than ever and will do anything for you. He's even willing to commit a crime for your sake 😬.
Overall Opinion:
Not going to lie, I really liked this season especially the development of his route. The plotting is really interesting and keeps you on edge. I feel like we're finally entering the final arc of his character and it's coming in a full circle.
In the beginning, Eisuke explains why he started these auctions to find out what happened to his father. Through his route, the MC and Eisuke face a lot of challenges and overcome them together, now we're getting closer to finding out what really happened to his father and who's out of ruin Eisuke. This season, we're getting one step closer to finding the truth.
During the story, it was really hard to tell who's the real Eisuke and who's the fake one. But the real one is definitely the one who always appears in his own suite with the MC.
While the real Eisuke had to pretend to be cold towards the MC, I think the imposter was the one making those unreasonable demands the majority of the time.
The auctions managers were very much aware of Eisuke's plans so they were also pretending so the imposter doesn't suspect a thing. The only reason he didn't let her in on his because (according to him) she's a terrible actress and she even admits it. ~ I mean, I'm not surprised. She wears her emotions on her sleeve. 😩 She even confronted the imposter when she realised he wasn't Eisuke, and - like always - she gets herself in trouble. 🙈
I really liked how the MC has become a lot 'smarter' this season. Mind you, she's not dumb, just naive and slow 😩. She's become more observant about how 'strange' Eisuke has been. Though, she gets confused when he switches from being cold one minute then sweet another. She just thinks he's stressed from work.
But the times when she knows there's definitely something wrong with him, she actually feels it. It's like a gut instinct she has.
The whole time when the imposter was pretending to be Eisuke, the MC was at wits' end when he chased away the auction managers. She probably would have kept believing he was Eisuke (just not himself) had the imposter not slipped up. The fake Eisuke didn't know what restaurant the real one took the MC on their date and told her to tell the driver (when Eisuke was the one who drove them).
What really made him slip up was when he said 'I love you' to the MC. And we all know Eisuke doesn't say it all that often and he especially doesn't say it stop her from pushing his buttons. So his habit fo not saying it enough really helped.
The secret code thing between the MC taught Eisuke and vice-versa really came in handy because Eisuke was able to save her (again). It just really shows they're connecting as a couple to have something like a secret code that only they know.
I was surprised to see Eisuke hold a gun and was willing to shot someone with it 😬 🙈. All because the MC hurt her ankle (she hurt her ankle from trying to escape), and it was the MC who talked him out of shooting someone. It really shows and proves the extremes Eisuke was willing to do for her. And it just proves how much she means to him.
This season really got me hooked because now I can't wait for next season because I think (or I'm expecting) the final villain shows up. I had the same reaction as the auction manager when they revealed the person who's out to ruin Eisuke.
While Eisuke is like...
I'm really curious about this final villain because he's not someone I expected (or any of the guys apparently). So I'm curious how this person fits into being the man who ruined Eisuke's father and is now out to ruin Eisuke.
I have a feeling, he may appear in the next season but I'm not too sure. Let's hope because it's time to bring this arc to a close.
I really liked how they had Eisuke develop some sort of PTSD (I'm not too sure of the proper term for this but I think it's trauma). After what happened to the MC in 'Hidden Secrets', Eisuke is traumatized at the memory because he almost lost the MC.
I really recommend this story if you want to see how close the MC and Eisuke has gotten. You get twice the Eisuke's in here. The doppelganger is quite entertaining in the end and in the epilogue because he makes these expressions that not even Eisuke makes. And it freaks the guys out. 😂
What's even funnier is that animals actually like the doppelganger instead of Eisuke... when they have the exact same face! 😂😂😂
Happy playing!
Overall score: 8.5/10
You are welcome to read my review on his overall personality and his character development from my general opinion post.
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