So it's just a random matchmaker hoping to get lucky.
People always think marriage is "years from now," unless they have someone in sight and reach.
Considering what he's wearing, that shouldn't be that cold. Suits are reasonably warm.
Not lying to yourself is a good way to live.
He has someone he's interested in. And he is lying to himself. Consciously or not.
Oh come on, at least the marriage talk should have been a wake up talk but it was just a waste of a chapter.
For how much space it took, it was a bit of a wake up for him. Made him think about relationships a bit more seriously.
A strait-laced white-collar man like Kuroda would never date a high school girl, but it doesn't mean that the moment she's out of high school, he couldn't consider it, seeing how they have anyway grown relatively close to each other and there's no ambiguity about Azuki's feelings.
The biggest problem, generally, for people of different ages is that they're at different stages in their lives. Sometimes it works out, but often it doesn't. If they don't want the same thing, there are going to be problems. In this case, she's good at going with the flow but not too flighty in her stronger opinions, while he's a bit stiff but open to some change, so it chances are fairly good.