I mean… the chef kind of explicitly said he was in love with Pontaru… but maybe they can be really really close friends that maybe look at each other with soft sparkly loving eyes
I know in another universe that he was written as a power bottom, and he is just BFFs with all those toxic bitches and his married to our cute regressor
I’m sorry but the translation is shit, English isn’t my first language and because is badly translated is hard to feel fluidity or understand what they are trying to say.
I read this story after an finish a chapter in Jinx to dilute the toxicity with wholesomeness