One month ?! Who needs one month to recover from a gastroenteritis ? I don't even get one week off work.
Also, I can understand a bit of jealousy from Sugita, but it feels completely out of place to suddenly see him declaring himself in charge of cockblocking his buddy. Big personality change, for no good reason. Well, we know the actual reason is to artificially lengthen chapter count by slowing progress through dumb shonen tropes but… Zero subtlety about it.