Last page got me like, "SON. OF A. MOTHER DUCK!"

He's got that all fried out you see - get his kouhai into the lake under the pretense of being ducking smashed. And to adress the issue of them both being you see - seriously wet and all, they'll need to take cover wherever (...best practice and all) and so on and so forth.
But that smirk was just kind of "un-ducking smashed".
So I vote guilty. Of romantic intent.

A wolf cosplaying as a duck?
He's playing the straight man in that stand-up comedy? *wriggles eyebrows*
Oh dear, all that pressure of not being able to talk makes me weird.