Naah honestly this manga is getting pretty shitty. like first there was no progress at all and now it`s reverse like who coffers up a fake relationship with another fake relationship how is that better? All characters a fucking stupid and the gal has it way to easy. the author puts in tropes...
The Story is going well but i think a time skip wouldn`t hurt at some point as just beeing a kid hurts the story and realism build to this point or we are here for the long run and we get for each act young teen, teen, young adult, adult a lot of chapters