I think this was definitely supposed to be shorter and maybe the author saw how much love it was getting and decided to lengthen it a bit, which i believe made it into was it is. It’s not bad at all i actually loved it, but it seems the plot was forced and so left a lot of loose ends, upon first read u wont notice it but when u reread it, you’ll definitely be like “hmm, wonder what he brought to this story”. Art was absolutely amazing tho!
Maybe he is doing this on purpose to keep Dan from distracting him? Bc there is no way we went through all that for him to do this again?? Maybe after the match he’ll apologize???