This isn't it, boss. Going out when you don't love the other person, just because you don't want to drift apart, is usually worse. It will be ok in the beginning, but at some point they will accept the fact, that you don't really love them and that it has been a fake relationship all along and that will hurt. Of course, maybe Makoto falls in love with him and then everything ends well, but I don't think that will happen.