It's just love~! Like that Gundam Wing ED.
...that said, while I know from experience that track uniforms are pretty shameless, the captain from this chapter takes the cake.
Oh gosh, we just had a magnificently fluffy chapter that wombo comboed with Team Spirit Feels. But now we're about to get a battlaxe of Ex Drama, I can feel it. Ugggggh.
The Iris girl probably has a background with assassination or something, and stuck with the Sword Saint Princess because she was "full of light" or something like that. You know, classic 'totally platonic soulmates' kinda stuff. Teacher was spot-on with that "please don't cut me down out of...
What a wonderful masterpiece. The main couple was great, but the teacher-student couple was also very well done. Everyone had an arc to come to terms with their own failings and the weight of the outside world, which I appreciated a lot!
I was waiting the whole time for the moment when Akira would realize "wait, why am I talking this way about Mayuki?!" but it never came.
...well, she at least realized that she had no room to try and stand between them (I think?), so it's not a one-for-one repeat of the situation from Rin's...