Kasumi, I wonder if she's just been misled by stories about what falling in love feels like so she hasn't recognised that what she has is what couples get after years together.
"Doesn't get romance" has kind of become an "in-between" character trope--it used to be "misled by pop culture about what real romance is" (Yuu in YagaKimi being the most famous example) and now seems to be transitioning to "character on the aro/ace spectrum," (at least as far as many readers are concerned).
When a characters thoughts/behavior overlap with the experiences one has being on such a spectrum it's inevitable that they'll be read as such by those it resonates with, regardless of whether said character was purposefully written to be that way. Especially when there hasn't been any definite word to the contrary.
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