I give exactly ZERO shits about scanlator drama. If someone takes the time out of their day to work on a series they like and post it here, then they're contributing. Rather than beg for scanlations or be salty about groups not min/maxing so you can get free scanlations sooner, how about you learn Japanese and STFU.
shit work like butchering the translation, retranslating a chapter over some petty reason, removing your translation cause you got butthurt by the comments, etc. ain't contribution. Sure work is still work and if it's yours you can do whatever you want with it, you'll just be seen like a prick if what you do hinders instead of contributes.
For the life of me, I can't remember the name of another story that the MC actually had a adverse physical reaction to girls because when they were much younger he never realised his best friend was a girl, then he found out... and because of that, he had some completely unbelievable physical reaction to all girls. Bonkers "because...reasons..." plot device...
He ought to just be (partially) honest to his classmates and tell them that they've known each other since middle school, so there's no way that they'd start dating now. He doesn't have to expose anything about their glow-ups.