These are the bits and pieces I've personally gathered about the original novel, anyways *SPOILERS*
but right now the story is building up to the really pivotal moment where Taekjoo is going to finally escape the island with Olga, leaving Zhenya in despair/forcing him to start deeply looking at his feelings for taekjoo. You can see in a variety of little instances here and there that by Zhenya's actions he already treats taekjoo differently than he would normally, he just has yet to notice/come to understand that himself so this arc acts as that first big push, I don't think they become a couple until much later in the story tho! Just agh, super awful timing for a hiatus because these next few scenes r likely gonna be extreme violence from zhenya getting jealous of his sister (and not understanding his own emotions) and just overall a really emotional rollercoaster is coming up from what I've seen/heard!
yess, btw i like mafia etc. trope too and usually they are all red flags (sometimes green but its rare you know lol) and we’re all used to it as a veteran fujoshis. But these “black flags”, i can manage to read but why suffer myself while there are tons of other good ones right ;) but ofc im curious and always come and get spoilers (〜 ̄△ ̄)〜

Ohhhhh you can't do this to me .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·.
I was just telling someone about how important this next arc was gonna be and how "funny" it would be to get any sort of hiatus that ruins the flow, FRICK MAN