Yeah, I mean, they were super cunts to the MC in the past, salting the wounds of his persistent trauma of not being able to live up to his mother's legacy, then the author's like "NEVERMIND", they immediately apologize and move on as if nothing ever happened and the MC doesn't give a fuck either, so that whole storyline that was foreshadowed over several chapters is just over now. Then it turns out the real plot is that these two assholes that were introduced 5 chapters ago pretend like they don't like each other when they're actually in love with each other. Who gives a flying fuck? Most of the time, side ships are boring and pointless distractions, and that's even when the characters didn't come into existence just for the sake of this arc or weren't made out to be extremely unlikeable from the get-go.