Something that I feel should be mentioned more when talking about the reciprocity of komahina is the line about Komaeda's smile on the first free time event. That line (especially on the original japanese version) has a very clear romantic tone in how it's worded, and if its utter romanticism wasn't enough, it's also a very clear parallel to the multiple and very important lines that Naegi has about Sayaka's smile on her free time events.

So I feel like saying that Komaeda's and Hinata's relationship has only implications on Komaeda's side when we have a line that not only has romantic connotations itself on Hinata's side but also parallels other lines with romantic connotation kind of silly.

We should recognize more often that Hinata is clearly implied to feel romantic attraction to komaeda in the beginning, there's no other reason why an author will put those parallels and those implications there if they were meant to be nothing for the reader. Hinata having a crush on Komaeda in the beginning is not a fantasy or a headcanon, but it is probably the meant reading.