Hey y'all. I know the author has trained us to prepare for pain but please remember this is the same author as Oosaki-San to Komori-san. Sometimes a fluffy chapter is just warm fluff.
Trust me, she doesn't need a Chekov's gun to inflict pain.
In the spirit of making everyone forget the gloom in the early comments I'll just mention that splitting taiyaki is the ultimate date move because it means someone's getting head and someone's getting tail.