How to fumble a confession, a manual in 27 chapters…
It was a bit foreshadowed but it's blatantly clear at this point, this is going to end up like those dumb overly dragging-on high school romcoms that stop 1 chapter after confession. Except rather than a hundred chapters of wishy washy will-they-won't-they, we get a hundred chapters of fucking instead. Allegedly an upgrade, although it makes their tip toeing around being honest even more jarring.