i don't get why either of them are lacking confidence in how much the other likes them.. Yayoi not sure if Kanna will fall for her and Kanna with a pretty normal? inferiority complex
work and professional life is one thing but idk how they don't see they're into each other as if they're not constantly making moves and literally begging for it
I think they're both nursing inferiority complexes that developed at different times — Yayoi's from her school days, and Kanna from her career. Yayoi hid hers better (until recently) because she's had more time to build up a confident persona / mask. She was probably forced to in order to survive at the black company and then as a freelancer. Kanna's battered confidence is a more recent change for her, she seems to be dealing with her lowest point for the first time.
The out-of-sync periods in which their confidence was damaged meant at the start of the story Kanna was visibly broken and Yayoi seemed super confident and self-assured, but you can see in this chapter how preoccupied Yayoi was that Kanna would 'discover' the less glamorous, less worthy version of herself in their first meeting.
Along with both thinking little of themselves, I think they're both also in awe of each other. Kanna sees all of Yayoi's success and tenderness, and Yayoi recognises all of Kanna's sweetness and the kinda naive optimism she has now and had back in school as well. That awe further increases the gap between them in their minds.
Obviously, from the outside
we can see that they're both idiot wet cat lesbians who see the best in the other while judging themselves way too harshly. FFS, that first meeting, the entire time Yayoi was sitting there worried Kanna would find out she was a dork in high school, Kanna's sitting there thinking "
this is the most perfect woman on the planet, how is someone as pathetic as me able to get along with her." Even
after Kanna knew who she was, Yayoi seemingly didn't catch on to how Kanna's regard for her didn't drop an inch. Wonder if it's gonna take Yuuko clonking their heads together at some point for them to get it.
As for the sexual attraction, I think they've both compartmentalised that as separate to love and regard for each other as people, at least enough to be uncertain if the other likes them all that much beyond as a friend with benefits.
I think about these two too much...