Katsuo

Not really in fact, he's pretty heartless regarding such things throughout. His priority always remained to be about getting stronger, keeping his little brother safe, building his team, completing the game and the convoluted struggle for survival after that. I could say he'd rather be married to his goals lmao.

Oh okay, good to know (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)

As the other commenter said, so far no, but also it's pretty sus how every side female characters obviously has an interest in MC (whether at the moment it's just to protect themselves, or actual romantic interest). I really like this story and it's great, but the longer this story goes on, the more suspicious the author is being. I'm predicting him just dropping the ball and making them all MC's gf because he's giving random attention to all these women equally.

I'm hoping he'll drop all these other annoying people and stay with the only woman who liked him before he was incredibly strong and filthy rich, but who knows

I can't blame you for the suspicion, I used to as well because of the usual proclivity that such things go down that route. But additional [ending spoilers] to give you peace of mind:

Assuming the Manhwa doesn't stray away from the the completed novel, the story ended without any mention of Ryu Min ever returning anyone's feelings.

Because he did something like a world reset back in time, in new year's eve where the game will not exist to come and take them, the people he met because of the game wouldn't know him henceforth and MC also never seek them out as there won't be the need. That it was best that "memories stay as memories." They're all back to strangers basically except Juri. The only woman that you're rooting for will have a snippet of her and MC hanging out on new year's eve and he goes on to say that they have become close friends, to emphasize the change in comparison to all his previous regressions where he was always alone standing in that moment. The only piece of ambiguity added is MC thinking that he has no guarantee their relationship won't go further than this. New year arrives and then it ends.

Maybe something will change that in the side stories but it's not yet out so until then, MC is pretty free of romance.

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A little something I'm adding about Juri is that, before the reset, Juri actually confessed to Ryu Min and he pretty much avoided answering that. Juri later learns about his identity as Black Scythe and confronts Ryu Min of his avoidance signaling his rejection. Even if Ryu Min knows to be Manipulative, the thought of appeasing Juri's mental turmoil at that time by pretending to answer her back didn't cross Ryu Min's mind. He couldn't clearly return her feelings so Instead he made her drink a memory erasure potion to specifically erase her memories of "Ryu Min" and consequently her feelings for him. It was never known if Juri would've want that but Ryu Min did it anyway because he wanted to make sure Juri's mental state was in tiptop condition free from heartbreak before a very important round. Buffer class had an important role to play and MC wouldn't allow any room for error. It's a little funny how MC's kind of allergic to explaination and resorts such a drastic measure but it's making a point that he doesn't like to fuck around.

Thank you kind sir/ma'am, I've truly been worrying about this for too long.

Even if my girl didn't get her cake, I'm glad she's at least alright. I hope the bullies still get their asses handed to them though, never forget!

sorry know reply is late haha

but there are lots of similar stories like this also on webtoon! it was kinda a popular genre back in 2016-18 when this was originally launched/made but if i can think of some recs of the top of my head u may also like which are similar would be:
- tower of god
- god of highschool (i think is the name lol)
- cloud walker (although i haven’t read much of it since it got ‘officials’ / published by webtoon)

there are actually so many similar styles on webtoon that you can find :) hope this helps <333

Ohh it's okay and thanksss I'll go check them out!ヾ(☆▽☆)