And it rains on their parade, but the date has only just begun. Glad to see he is sticking with his guns and isn’t chickening out by correcting himself or trying to play it off. This is a date, and he just promised to go on another one with her next year. There is nothing to misunderstand here, he asked her out, they went out, and they have plans to do so again in the future.
Now how long until one of them (probably Kuroki because let’s be honest here) asks the other to be their boyfriend/girlfriend? All this progress and only 40 chapters, talk about fast pace.