Ah, this chapter was beautiful. I'm grateful to the mangaka.
And to the translators of course. Thank you as usual, gentlemen.
Would be surprised if he just tells her to start going out or something. Probably will be somethings on the lines of, we can't be together until you graduate or something like that.
Yes, I have a feeling they will have a "dating/engaged" status, but won't be actually going out or doing anything until she graduate. It will still go on as it went till now — simple relatively wholesome SoL/romcom
And imo 10 years is still an "okay"...ish gap. 12-15 sure feels big, I feel. But 10 is still passable. Anyway, when they will be 30/40, nothing of it will matter