Ritsu giving up alone time with Mimisuke just to make sure she'll do better, my queen
Also lmao @ the Black Stars glazing Mimisuke even when she's not leading.
I'm going to be blindly hopeful that this arc is instead Ritsu getting bumped to more main character status and we just get more backstory on her finally because she's around to the end.
The Japanese (used to) call women past 25 Christmas Cakes (they're already past their prime), no one here makes the rules
Anyway, new Kuzushiro, hope this gets the volumes it'll need to tell their story, because it's probably not intended to be a short one.
Logistics is so hard that Sun Tzu (and many others) had to write treatises educating countless stupid nobles across the millennia how not to get their armies killed for free lol
There was definitely an ending where they don't end up together, especially if there wasn't enough time for the on-ramp to form. Almost surprised they stayed together for the ending and it wasn't a fakeout.