@givemersspls bc their relationship is progressing more. That is, they are coming to a better understand of eachother and their feelings. Sure, there may not be mutual love, but one party has become aware of and accepted their own feelings, and the other party knows how they feel.
Granted, we haven't gotten a confession to them yet, but now that one is determined to make a change, and the other is aware of this, their is no way they can remain stagnate. SOMETHING will happen. A lot more than we can say about our lovey dovey couple. (fwiw, her friend seems to already be a lesbian, so I doubt she will be flat out rejected. But never know what an author will do)
The only progress we have gotten so far is one of them became aware of their own feelings. Everything else is the same. Sure, they are "further along" in the relationship. One thinks they are already dating after all
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. But everything has been stagnate since the manga started. Our heroine has been making moves from the start, she only got a little bit more aggressive with it recently since she realized she was going out with such a wimp. And while dense-kun has finally realized he is in love, not only is he too much of a complete wimp to make a move, but takes all moves made on him as an act of bullying.
The only one competent enough to fix this misunderstanding is too busy stalking her best friend to interfere. Instead choosing to cheer on our mentally impaired protagonist as he enjoys the nothingness that will come out of him doing nothing to change the situation.