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Kris will stop you from being pointlessly cruel to Ralsei earlier in the same Chapter. Kris still doesn't hate Ralsei whether we tell Kris to be mean to him or not.
If you want to actually analyze these characters and understand why Kris would subvert us to encourage Ralsei developing his own feelings earlier in the Chapter but still tell him to "Keep smiling" at the end, you should have to actually think about that instead of consulting arbitrary numbers and reducing the relationship between two characters to that.

>Maybe you should *stop* obsessing about your own -- and other people's -- sexuality? Feels like it’s about time to do that. You’ve thought about this for *four years*?! Not only should you stop, you should tell Ralsei you've stopped obsessing about other people's sexuality too. I'm sure he'd appreciate it. Unless you already got him killed because you were obsessing about your sexuality. (There’s no way of telling from within your brain, but for your own sake: please say you didn’t.)