found the author's twitter and in 2022 they said it was wrongly categorized as BL and for the time being they're not writing it as BL so readers can "read it as they like"
the last volume released a week ago and i found a tweet from a buyer saying they "like a style that doesn't force it into BL"
couldn't find any info other than that but that seems like enough to say it didn't end up having romance :(
(pls keep in mind tho that this is all from google translated japanese tweets!)
found the author's twitter and in 2022 they said it was wrongly categorized as BL and for the time being they're not writing it as BL so readers can "read it as they like"
the last volume released a week ago and i found a tweet from a buyer saying they "like a style that doesn't force it into BL"
couldn't find any info other than that but that seems like enough to say it didn't end up having romance :(
(pls keep in mind tho that this is all from google translated japanese tweets!)