Ono Rin, the author and artist for this, is "just" the artist for the 2nd cutest girl in class manga adaption, the light novel author takata is somebody else.This is the same author as 2nd Cutest Girl in Class, right? That one had pretty good relationship pacing as far as the manga adaptation (arguably great, at least in my view) - so I feel like they won't go downgrading their writing ability for no reason here.