This manga keeps going beyond my expectations.
I think this should be the gold standard of how relationships in manga should be.
Not drawn out cuckings of 200+ chapters just to get to hand holding,
but literal "I'm stuck with a girl in a situation and what would your logical hormones actually tell you to do?"
Yeah I get it, that might not seem as wholesome as your "hand holding", but human nature was never wholesome.
Just be glad they're not rushing into sex immediately as well.
Pacing is good, but extending the manga into the point its filler is bad.
This is just the right amount of both 😄
Also I just had a terrible thought about the ending.
What if... This whole thing was a "delusion"... This entire manga was Eruko's fantasy and none of it happened.