Now this has me wondering about the hot spring part of the game. If you play as the female protagonist will you need to look for the guys? Even more will you be the one to punish them?

Mitsuru still does the punishing, but you do need to look for them.

If Mshe has a high enough relationship with them and she finds them however she's given the option to let them sneak out and not tell anybody since they beg her that it was an accident.

Interesting...

So what are the exact requirements to 'save' them? No matter what I select, it's either the standard execution scene or no one finds them at all, not even MShe...

fishbob said:
Mitsuru still does the punishing, but you do need to look for them.

If Mshe has a high enough relationship with them and she finds them however she's given the option to let them sneak out and not tell anybody since they beg her that it was an accident.

Somehow I can just hear oe_kintaro saying, "Oh, yes, punish me Mitsuru!" Well, he would if he knew who Misturu was, anyway.