bruuuuh for all of you saying that there's no development on this story you should know betterrrr, it's like yall are forgetting that souichi is a straight up tsundere, which means in this case that revealing his feelings to the rest of the world just like that is a nono for him, something that shouldn't be confused with him not reciprocating morinaga's feelings. souichi is completely conscious about them being in a relationship and everything that comes with it, he even lets himself show an evidently sweet side for morinaga only, something that would've been unthinkable in the earliest chapters sooo i just don't get this lack of development thing that yall are talking about