Well, it stuck the landing and hit it out of the park. Her transformation into a lovestruck Menhera gyaru is complete. Minus the menhera, she's actually adorable now. Character growth!
Her cynical mother is kinda terrible for ruining her daughter's impression of love. She's the reason Kurusu didn't understand love in the first place, and it almost ended in disaster when she looked for a random guy to take her first time. Luckily POV-kun turned out to be a much better catch than she could've hoped for.
Is this the ending for this (part)? If it is I guess I should edit the entry to have the final chapter at Volume 1, Chapter 10.