We appreciate you translating the chapter to have no gaps regardless.
Part of it might have been that we got both a "were going away forever" wrap-up chapter and a "oops, we've been gone for a year" recap chapter.
Wihh out knowing anything, and without reading the spoilers, "little girl" is probably Therese from when she visited as a child, got bored and started walking around the garden and didn't remember the rest of the night.
Oh God, I thought another group had snipes them since the translation quality went to shit and all the names changed. Turns out they did it themselves. That's unfortunate.
I think the reason people are upset that this ended so abruptly is exactly because of that. It never really got off the ground. It barely started building the lore on the very last chapter.
Gonna be honest, fully expected them to re-combine, especially once he did. I thought the whole premise was gonna be some secret, thousand year long test to see if they could find someone that wouldn't be able to choose and would instead fall completely in love with all aspects and traits of the...