I think I see where the author was going with this, and I suspect that they were told to end it all in a set amount of chapters and had to take a bunch of plot notes and bullet points and shave them down to the bare minimum.
And sadly, truncating it all down to a fraction of the number of chapters the author possibly had in mind, makes it all feel rushed and artificial. Ryou needed a lot more time to actually work through the feelings he's discovering for Asahi, and more pages were needed to deal with what all went down between them during the trip with the Prez et al.
Cutting out all but the most essential beats means we lose all that buildup that would otherwise make the sequence of events feel much more natural. I can't say I approve of what Ryou has done to Asahi twice now (even if she "instigated" it in the shed by pushing him down first), but I think that more chapters showing a fallout between them, and then the two of them having to grapple with what occurred and how to rectify things, would smooth a lot of the "ick" out, at least a bit.
Which is a shame. I really liked this series at the start, because of the rather novel dynamic between Ryou and Asahi and the twist on their character types. But whatever the reason, I suspect the author's schedule was pulled out from under them, and we're getting this rushed ending instead of what I suspect was a longer series with more paced-out character development.
Hopefully the author can avoid whatever led to these events on their next go-around, because I do like what they were doing here overall and don't want to see them punished forever due to how this has shaken out (as I'm not convinced it was their plan all along).
Thanks for the TL and for your continued effort on this series.