"Omagad she bought so much random shit from the grocery store, she cares so much about me! Also do you remember that one time she put some cooling pad on my forehead when I caught the deadly japanese cold?"
These heavy-handed tropes suck. Manga fucking sucks. 👨🦼
Hard to say if it has been axed or the author ran out of ideas. Considering more than half of those chapters were flashbacks, I'd lean on the another-case-of-a-mangaka-that-has-never-been-in-a-relationship-so-he-doesn't-know-what-happens-next theory.
By the way that scanlation of yours was...