What I don't get is the wife literally not telling the friend off and calling her out for stealing the husbands bite. She already mentioned she didn't spend time with her husband and she lets crap like that slide.
What I feel many authors overuse is not having the MC comfort the "rival" in this case. They always do it with the opposite sex and that brings the super cliche stuff. Emotional intimacy is a real thing people
I'm more worried how the glasses witch is gonna be stubborn that she won the contest despite Ichi dealing with an even worse threat. Truly going to be a woman moment.