ピッピ(pippi)=彼ぴ(karepi)=彼氏(kareshi) = boyfriend
上杉侍(uesugi zamurai) = 飢えすぎ (uesugi) = too hungry/starved
So what she's saying is that they want a boyfriend/girlfriend too much
People really should have payed more attention to who was the author of the manga. No way Maruto would write a normal romance without any drama
Besides the title also implied this was coming with the "It's quite late"
Actually the volume on the cover has flashbacks about the MC's past of when he worked as an Assistant Director for TV and that girl is a model he met back then.