just wanna mention it even though I'm probably wrong, but i get this gut feeling that Ootori is gonna turn out to be a guy who crossdresses because he feels weird being into fashion as a guy, and will reveal that he admires Saotome for being brave and being open about liking fashion as a guy
people talking about sniping, all I'm gonna say:
If you take this long to do a chapter that takes 2-3 days, with this much of a backlog, all while having several other series you're working on that you're also going at a snails pace on, YOU DESERVE TO BE SNIPED.
I took 1 look at the chapter 7 cover and thought (having read up to approximately 3 chapters before the skiing chapter) "Is that gonna be the MC's female form?" and lo and behold I was right. but now I'm wondering "wait, how the heck did I know that?"
even if they couldn't predict which team would get which costume, only the former council president knew where to get something that fit the description, meaning it would've been impossible for the other 2 teams to find it. also while the runners on each team were both 2nd years, the finders for...