Let's bet on it and I hope everyone chimes in.
This is the thing that I dislike about this manga, the randomness and chaos, which was it's quirkiness in the first couple of arcs but I think it's quickly becoming annoying.
Switching between battle manga to comedy to drama and romance back to some serious tone just out of nowehere or at the flip of a coin, it kinda makes you feel you can't focus on one thing because the manga has already ran away with the next one.
As for their relationship, it just seems another one of those misunderstandings tropes causing drama and emotional rollercoasters of will they won't they bait and switch.
I think it's going to be swept under the rug and they'll have 2 or 3 panels where they MIGHT address it, but I think that's where the mistake lies, this was intentionally put there to cause this exact response from the reader, to draw you in and make you hope one thing or another.
Because if you put the slightest thought into things, Okarun is literally in a coma and there hasn't been any serious tone around that, like there's no urgency to it and no real worry, no one standing there thinking "this could be the last time".
All that is replaced with cheap drama, "She's getting all buddy buddy with her BFF, oh no what will happen, and poor Okarun sees it all, oh no will he feel bad?"
This would have worked if these events have time to breathe and grow and be explored, but if this gets addressed 30 chapters from now because the next thing that happens is training mode, get serious mode, battle manga mode and whatever else with little no room to breathe between any of the major evens or arcs then you're just telling a story in bursts with great art but horrible pacing...scratch that, no pacing at all just full auto unlimited clip.
