I mean yeah, it could be, but until then it aint much more than "she was getting out of work or at work", it's not even like anything we saw in that panel was out of the ordinary for Yamada.
Pretty sure that's just her being worried that Ichikawa's hanging out at Moeko's house, her being outside is prob just her being on her way to/from somewhere
I re-read the thing and I think he's convinced she's annoyed at him, she's been pretty cold to him in general after chapter 14 and he might think that she disliked it or noticed he had feelings for her and decided to put distance between them.
Wasn't it compared to Taiki's and even her own determination to win? sure she lost but Taiki also lost many times, if that didn't stop him I don't see how loosing would imply Hina would've learned to stop.
I mean, now that he knows the truth that may help her find some closure?
Let's be real tho, no way the author won't end this with Sunao and Lemon together, I'd rather for Sunao to end up with Natsumin but that will happen.
I wonder if the author is trying to show a more realistic case of a young girl falling in love with an adult, she's either crazy or just having fun letting her feeling run free.
Would be plenty anti-climatic for Taiki to loose but I also get the feeling they've been foreshadowing it for a while now, then again it'd be pretty out of nowhere to have him loose to Kyo instead of any of his actual rivals.
I personally wouldn't hate it tho.
Is this on hiatus? checked the official raws but they are 2 chapters behind us, what's up with that? did the author first release on twitter/pixiv and then on comic-walker?
I wonder if Grandma's sister curse is the reason she reacted like that when she saw Kaya... that grin on the last page surely did look similar to the one Kaya made.