Same question. I loved their arc so I was so confounded when we saw he maybe just slept with two strangers apparently??
The author really enjoys putting the paired characters in non-monogamous side quests. Really no different from watching an old school soap opera lol. (￣∇￣")
If I have a dollar for every time a golden-era Yaoi-author may have a kink for cheater-but-not-quite-cheater seme x devoted-in-love uke, I'd have two dollars, which isn't a lot, but it's concerning that it happened twice.
Not everytime, the snake & mongoose doesn't have any sidequest though.. ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
The update chapters feel like a dream and not in a good way. Like one of those vivid and unsettling dreams that leave you puzzled and annoyed when you wake up.