@PurpleHazwDude I could not agree with you more. The thing is that the whole wife and mother relationship sounds perfect and what Nakano needs but so far in my opinion I have mainly seen the mother part of this relationship. All this backstory about each other is all the more reason why they should tie themselves together emotionally. In chapter 53 when Senko told Nakano the truth about why she is here and why she is caring for him made them both emotionally vulnerable. When Nakano closed the conversation with “tell me more about you” and then Senko responded go going up to hug him and said “very well”, I thought that was the big first step in the emotional connection and it would progress from there. Accept I have not seen anything yet in terms of that progression and almost with this chapter even (which you could argue) and it absolutely sucks that when Nakano said that he was almost thankful for the curse because otherwise he would have not met her and Senko just had that look... that’s when he should have given her that passionate hug AND NOT GRAB HER TAIL!!! In my opinion but I’m guessing if that happened it probably would satisfy all the readers and then there would not be much more to write about so... let’s just see how Rimukoro writes this story.