Starry Sky Scans is harsh... not that tthey don't have any right to be...
They asked again and again not to upload their scans to sites like this, but some didn't listen. Sites like these are the way how original publishers usually find out about groups scanlating their works and this leads to scanlators to have legal problems with the publishers.
The impression I acually got was that after Ryou leaves him for college, Hiroki'd be free to go after him since he said he'd keep his eyes closed for only the short period of time left before that. I thought about the scenario when Ryou would have left and Hiroki ended up not chasing after him and figured that's him deciding to shut his eyes forever, refusing to work on his own feelings.