Thanks for the chapter and congrats on beating cancer!
Man, I still can't fully guess where this gonna go. I guess they'll ended up dating each other, but Mari's arc is still very incomplete and just getting "saved" by Seki after all of this will be meaningless.
Seems like that line from ch. 9 about "not so honest hero and a too honest heroine" is reversing pretty drastically. We've seen Seki being brutally honest for quite a while, but not Mari I don't think.
There's also no clear view on how the Fox and Tanuki stories gonna end.
Series' been pretty fun so far, somewhat more "love is war" then Kaguya, but at the same time you kinda pause and ask "are they really in love?"
The context for Mari is simple, according to Fox she just wants to be saved by prince charming. I'm a little more curious with Seki, since Tanuki mentioned that Seki's real intention is to help her. It's not shown as a flaw, but I'm wondering if it will be one.