Man somebody fire this editor, everybody knows you gotta spend at least 50 chapters after the MC realizes he likes the love interest before he can try to confess.
You can play the old dial-up internet noise for him when he sees her eat the popsicle like that. And then when he is fully online, he asks her out. Then just play the BSOD for her.
Wooooow! I wasn’t expecting a confession!! And it was so “cute” that he realized he liked Shina-san when he saw her eating ice cream lol. But I’m worried about the next chapter. Since he confessed so early in the story, I imagine Shina-san will turn him down at first because of the “shock” of a confession coming out of nowhere.