This better be a real sign of progress and the dude better be realistic and not mc-facepalm meme-dense, or there’s gonna be some next level chancla up in here.
It’s too bad this author doesn’t have more talent for using manga art as a medium to tell the story, instead of writing a light novel’s worth of words in inner dialog.
I remember reading Love Hina waaay back, and after a few of these weak plot interruptions I stopped thinking nooooo in terms of the story, and it shifted to wanting to punch the author. He used it it so gd much.