@reu I agree. Unfortunately the serialisation isn't working. In the original the very fact the maid wasn't exposed (figuratively speaking) so much made it work much better. It was always a very smooth and solid progress of the kid suspecting something silly, the maid noticing it and trying to use it against him, but then the kid turned it totally around back at her. The end. That snappy format is mostly broken here. It must be precisely due to the reason you said: By trying to stretch the per chapter plot, it ruins the simple flow and, at the end of the day, the characters themselves aren't sufficient to carry a long chapter.