Responses
On the risk of this being an unpopular opinion; one of these two knows what's going on and is deliberately keeping the other confused, primarily in the hopes of milking the misunderstanding.
Like I'm sorry ML, but if your secret plan is to make the MC catch feelings for you, by lovebombing him under pretext, maybe spent a few seconds considering how thatll lead to really mixed signals for an already socially incompetent MC. Which you know he is, because you're out here exploiting it for skinship any chance you get.
When are they gonna tell their feelings to each other