He's the kind of guy that blows either hot or cold is he? After all those cold reactions that was very hot and very cute of him :)
Pariya just needed some reassurance and now she's got plenty.
I find it a bit funny in manga when a girl bows over like that out of embarrassment. Now he's able to take even more liberties with your spaced out body (lenny face)
Umar, is it? I hope he dies of the same thing that killed his mother before the preparations are complete...
[Edit]: Do mods marking things as spoilers count as confirmation? Isn't that ironic if so? Whatever... I'll just remove the relevant statement entirely.
@nanaya Public display of affection was a big no-no in a lot of eastern cultural society, it persist to this very day, although the severity of it differs from place-to-place.
A neighboring province of my home region even had a pretty strict sharia law code (Qanun) that makes it technically punishable by law (with public lashing, yes they still do that). it's weird. Dating out in the open must be pretty dangerous there.
While in my home province (right next to them) we don't have that and you can find pork and even booze everywhere.
With him "touching her" (by kissing her out in the open) would make it almost a guarantee that he will be obligated to marry her, even if their parents ever had a thought about annulling the marriage.