What the hell is this? A full chapter with nothing but Wakana and Marin having an honest one to one conversation about their feeling and clearing misunderstandings? Is this even legal? Whoever was holding the author at gunpoint during this chapter deserves a peace nobel prize.
Having something start out of a misunderstood confession seems like a lazy cop out, it already fulfilled it's purpose by making her conscious of him, before this happened she was an enigma.
The fact that this is the kind of extra chapters he wants to draw and the complete reset of any progress due to the chapter resraws show you where he wants to take this series
Great! There is certainly nothing better than drama that can easily be solved with basic comunication to drag the story in a monthly series that has the same pages as a weekly series.
Nah, he 100% messed up on purpose to show toyoda that even if you get the worst sketch, you won't get chewed up and embarassed by the teacher, easing up her insecurities, the problem is that she'll obviously catch up on that and feel guilty she's holding him back because of her insecurities.
Yeah, it's hard to be sympathetic with him when he does things like this, but to be fair, him rejecting his friend was a categorical "I like someone else", the teacher is wishy washy with her "but my age" and "please don't tempt me".
Ameri was rank 6 last year and she was in the same year as Iruma is now, I don't think her being president would change anything, and considering rank 4 was the minimum for the misfits to keep Royal One and that iruma had no issues that kept him from raising to rank 5 last year, leads me to...
This isn't even the classic "mistaking kindness with romantic interest" she outright said the reason she got close to him were his looks, not just his interest in books, this is just a low blow for no reason, poemu should stop being so nosy.