Welp, Komi's self-confidence is being challenged, I guess. Good for her, in a way.

Sorry wingman, ya kinda fuc*** up on this one, lol.

Um... I'm sorry, but what the fu**?

Yeah, the face at the end doesn't bode well. Again, I don't think he'd go through with it.

Great, so get married to manage the curse... at the cost of never being able to be near Senko again. Something tells me that if he found out that piece of information, he couldn't go through with it.

Naoki gives a speech again, and Kotoko's feelings that were formed the same way three years ago resurface...
That's fine, I guess, but this was a beautifully missed opportunity to explain how she could've possibly fallen in love like that.
Instead, she reminisces about what in the world they've been through since living together, which is a lot of garbage,
because, shocker, he still doesn't like her.

Naoki makes NO attempt here to console Kotoko's feelings outside of the insistence that it's fine if things stayed the way they were, which further hammers in the idea that he doesn't like her in the same way that she likes him.

Actually, can somebody please explain how two people who still aren't together still the "centerpiece of attention" when it comes to rumors? Realistically speaking, there has to be a point where they become boring as a topic, and I'm sure a year is more than enough time for them to simmer out as the topic of the day. 

Kaoru Tada is simping SO hard for these two to be together, she's using the stupid tactic of having other people talk about it until it's true, which is such a lazy and toxic way of trying to get people together.

Hey, Kotoko, when a guy says that out of the eighteen years of his life, the worst one of them was the one where he had to live with you, that's a really strong sign that he doesn't like you.

If Naoki continues to insist that it's fine that things stay the way they are, what kind of implication would that give to girls who are reading this manga? That it's somehow okay to torment somebody who doesn't feel the same way you do until they give in, because they secretly like it? This idea is so toxic that it's not just abusive, it's sickening, and the writer should have known better.

Noriko also reveals here just how inconsiderate she is of her son. He reveals later in that same chapter that he doesn't eat sweets: you would think that as the mom, Noriko would know that piece of information, and yet continues to insist that Kotoko give him chocolate?