Nope...... U didn't miss a thing!! He never said it EVER!!

actually, it started at volume 1 (aijou). you know, the usual super stoic traditional japanese men style of confessing with body language, that thing. and so he spent four volumes to make midori come around and now we're here.

Oh IC so still no change with him. Thnx was to lazy to go through everything again and check out.