The wish fulfillment is stronk with this series, I'm glad that stupid pageant arc is over now though.
It really feels like though Nanba's sudden liking of MC was so we could go back to wheel spin to stop progress and essentially just have the Mona progress cycle again.
And Tomo is on the board. So far only Mona and Tomo were able to actually capture his heart for the moment. Asahi has yet to do so. The best she could do is seduce him.