I'm in Love with the Older Girl Next Door - Vol. 2 Ch. 24 - I still don't know you, Shia-san

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hmmmm though it's strange on how the story laid out for this chapter, like the sudden 360. but it seems Shia is facing something that she can't just spill it to takkun. all these emotions happening all at the same time made her a little bit unstable? seems waiting for the next chapter might shed some light about this. no wonder she'say it herself that she's like a mine field. (but i wish this is not really about the possibility that shia have some feelings for tsugumu)

You mean Tsumugu, but yes, Shia's just acknowledging how much of a mess she is, and that she really can't just say it to his face that she likes him more because she's just not as straightforward as Tasuku/Takkun. There's still room that it's the other way, but I'm pretty sure it's sheer embarrassment of admitting she reciprocates. He's a little too intense for her right now, even if she does like him more.

 

[xTachibana]

I was pretty sure thats how the chapter was delivered. Pretty surprised other people took it the other way around.

It's cuz of the order.

"You like me as much as X"
"No I like..."
The no here to me reads as you don't like me as much as X, you like X more. In this case, X is his brother. That's why people are interpreting it this way. Granted without seeing the raw idk if it carries the exact same connotation but that's just how I read it.