@fitzy64 I think the chapter you translated is already part of the official English. I can't link to the reader site I found it on due to rules but this seems to correspond to chapter 54 of the official translation. A few chapters after this are also translated. Just thought I should let you...
Let's be real here, no one has a chance - this a clear "main girl wins" manga. The other female protagonists are only here to pad out the story for a few volumes.
You could tell someone told the author to rush this along.
It makes sense - I imagine even the Japanese audience was getting tired of this extended isekai arc - the conclusion of which had (surprise, surprise) no story development.
I guess someone could argue that Kazuya gained some abilities...
I don't know this chapter gave me a very strange feeling. Like we're going to get a "you still don't know who the bride is" final chapter. I hope I'm wrong, I don't like Yotsuba because she only reinforces the tired "childhood friend/promise" trope but an inconclusive ending would be a final...
@Duralumin Thank you so much for all the work you've done over these past few years. I've been following your releases for Otoyomegatari since the beginning and its sad to see them go but I respect your reasons.
This is the truly an inverted rom-com. Instead of dragging out the romance with comedy for 200+ chapters it uses comedy to push the romance faster than a bullet train.
When these sorts of chapters come out (rival with no real chance of winning), you can be sure the author has started scrapping the bottom of the idea barrel.
This was definitely axed, it was so rushed that it went against the whole atmosphere of the entire manga. Not to mention that afterword by the author: "I'm sure their lives will casually move along, but this is where this story ends", sounds a little too much like "there was more to come but...