Maybe now Akari will learn that she needs to be more proactive and show some effort and improvment because her tsuntsun act is getting real stale she was supposed to be the mature one but has shown the least amount of personal growth
looking at someone cuz of their beauty and looking at them lustfully is NOT the same, runako quite literally said she was a bop fo saying she want them to look that way
Best girl won, and 2nd best girl was right behind. That's all that matters. Runako being next is understandable , good trick. Kozue could of just probably found something else to chug , but that probably wouldn't help.