I believe Mag performing for the rich was meant to imply that. He knew Finn was wealthy and had to attend those parties, so he left the circus group he was with and was attending those parties as a performer to find Finn. That's why Finn said 'no wonder I couldn't find you at the circus.' They were both searching for each other, but Finn was looking in the circus and Mag in the parties so they didn't find each other til then.
The story is from Finn’s POV so of course you will see Finn try more. Mag completely changed his performance and even came up with a story that he hoped would reach Finn and draw him in. There’s also the fact that Finn comes from an affluent family and can travel far and wide without issue, whereas Mag still has to work and perform to be able to do anything.
The story doesn’t need to show these things any more than they did, I think the problem is these days it seems readers can’t comprehend or critically think about the media they are consuming. I constantly see comments like this on manga that simply seem to miss the point just because it wasn’t blatantly explained or shown.
I agree the chapter was short but it was most likely a publication/serialization thing rather than the author being lazy. It’s hard to include everything you want when you get limited to 6 chapters and possibly limited to a specific number of pages too.
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Well said!
It also bothers me that Finn seems to be the only one who put in effort to find Mag. It didn’t feel like Mag was waiting on him, we never saw if no longer being able to see Finn deeply impacted him the same way. For all appearances Mag was living his life per usual and whether he ever saw Finn again wasn’t that important to him. It needed a chapter to show them BOTH searching and then a reuniting chapter. It was an excellent set-up with a lukewarm and rushed pay off. It’s not bad, just a disappointment.