"I never said I hate you."
Nope, he said he hate her and all beasts because of her and his childhood trauma. Big difference indeed....
Everything feels so forced, the human school arc was as short as it was useless. It was cleay there for the quid pro quo, and in the end, even that doesn't matter, as the other members' reaction show.
She ask him why he came back while he could have had hitomi if he had stayed and he is about to say he came for her... Really ?
Because I clearly remember hitomi telling him she was going back and him telling her he would follow ber because he liked her. So if he had stayed, he wouldn't have had hitomi, and he certainly didn't come back for lanka.
Is the editor pressing the author to move the romance quickly or something ?