am I dumb?
"This kid has no parents", then 2 pages later "through my father's connections"
I'm assuming the MC doesnt live with his parents, hence the cat assumed he 'has no parents'?
trust me there is ALOT of stuff skipped, and some scenes are out of order (ie the scene happened earlier in the manga compared to LN)
the confrontation with sasaki in the LN happened AFTER wataru agreed to help out whereas here in the manga it happened BEFORE.
I noticed it too, you can even see it in this chapter in natsukawa's flashbacks,
sajou's eyes are full, bright, and now, his eyes aren't (the bottom half are now white) and he has eyebags almost every page
this chapter made no sense i had to check across other sources to see if I was interpreting it correctly for some sentences
also the manga skipped parts in the LN which is ungood