C’mon now dawg, c’mon mane!! I can only write "This is cosplay manga with a romance subplot" so much till people start calling me clown. While the "childhood friend" was set up from page 1 of this manga, execution in this chapter was really cliche and uncalled for. We had a really heavy arc about cosplay and not much interaction between 2 mcs, then 2 chapters of 5th row characters talking about unrelated things, now this.
I'm not the one who usually belives in "big bad editor", but this stretching looks really weird.
Thanks for translation!