Really Good chapter.
Now it makes more sense why they have such a friendship barrier between them. To not destory the thing they have going on right now but tbh its just makes it more worse as time goes on. They need to clear it out someday.
Ayaka really deserves all the love but she needs to do something about it herself.
So he isn’t oblivious at all. He just wants to keep what they have after she’s lost so many friends that she thought were friends.
It all makes SO much sense now why he doesn’t take her hints. It’s probably really damn hard to have an interest in someone but you don’t want to disappoint them