TBH this is fine, I think the author was running out of ideas and those couple melodramatic chapters were the inkwell running dry
Better to end it now than beat a dead horse and ruin what you've already written
not hugging, not even holding hands?
Mangaka WTF?
the ending is so... plain. Usually the endings are remembered for weeks, months. Here, after 10 minutes I had to read it again because I forgot what it was about.