That's not why he concluded that. He concluded that because he saw how deeply relieved she was to learn that Lemon wasn't dating him, and since he also believes Kogahara hates him (because he friend told him that), so by process of elimination she must be happy to learn that Lemon is single.
To be honest, the dream scenario here (entertainment-wise) is that he completely gives up on Kogahara and spends his time in Lemon's body trying to push her together with Lemon because he thinks they both secretly have a crush on each other.
The tone of it reads as "educational" as in it thinks this stuff is interesting and is trying to present the facts of prison life in a neutral manner. Of course being "neutral" in this context can be seen as endorsing it. That said, I'm honestly kind of surprised at how non-judgementally it's...
Seems like it's setting up a misunderstanding where she assumes without basis that he accepted the villain's offer and then she asks to leave the palace without giving a reason and he feels hurt but he doesn't want to refuse her wishes etc etc.
TBH I'm not especially sympathetic to the Empress trying to find a way to let her brother off the hook for trying to abort the emperor's child. Like, that's crossing a line and he probably deserves some kind of punishment for it? So her trying to go around the emperor's back to stop his...
The military comment is because Korea has a law that requires every male citizen to serve in the military for 2 years iirc. Often they will take breaks from college to do this, so basically she's wondering if he's already done his time or if he'll have to go away soon.
I just want to say that this was translated by someone who wasn't looking at the page (so they didn't know who was talking) and edited by someone who didn't know which line went into which bubble. That is all.
The translation is clearly rushed because there are some extremely basic errors like saying "your brothers" instead of "his brothers" in a context where that makes no sense. This is the sort of thing you can notice even without seeing the original.
That said, they did release 18 chapters at...
To be honest I do like the dynamic where Nunally has no romantic interest in Lockmann whatsoever and he gets frustrated by that (even though it's his fault for never doing anything that could possibly make her like him). I just hope they don't end up together even though they clearly will, lol...