"I'm wearing the matching one" Jesus if a girl did that to me on a first date, I'd either be sprinting away screaming forever or be so hopelessly enamoured I could never escape...
I've come back to this series a lot despite how short it is, I just love Sainami's gremlin energy sosososo much, I really hope there's more some day :3
I've come back to this specific chapter at least a dozen times now, this is my favorite chapter by far, it's so good
The Play Catch bit is so well set up lol
It's a reference to Utena. And there's also a reference to Lycoris Recoil in one of the mercenary's names, so there's a couple yuri references in this chapter :o I wonder what it means...
(Not to discount your interpretation, which is more apt given what's happened in the story already. Plus...