Also, it's criminal how much Yom left out when you compare the novel to this chapter. Hikari talks about how she's hiding from Yuu - she's sitting in her room with her back literally to Yuu's room, she leaves her house late and checks the train platform for Yuu - she takes the next train just in case and ends up rushing into her classroom at the last second.
She mentions her two friends asking if she's ok and how she doesn't want to talk to them right now. She mentions how Yami is missing from school and how the teachers and classmates think "ah, it's happening again" and how no one seems to want to help Yami and that Yami might not be able to graduate. She thinks someone needs to step in to help Yami before it's too late but feeling relieved she doesn't have to see Yami face to face right now. She says someone needs to be meeting with Yami and talk to her patiently and convince her to come back but then thinks "But who's going to do that?" implying that maybe this time Hikari isn't going to reach out and be the life preserver for Yami.
In the manga she just says "What are you apologizing for?" but in the novel she thinks about how she hasn't replied to Yuu because she still doesn't understand everything and wants to know exactly what lie he's apologizing for - for hiding his relationship with Yami? for confessing to Hikari but not meaning it? She wants explanations.
Then it cuts off right when she's talking about wanting him to come to her but in the novel she yells it and right after the doorbell rings and she thinks Yuu heard her since she was yelling - but it's her father. Side note: why the fuck is Hikari's father ringing their doorbell to get in?! Dude doesn't have a key to his own house?!!?!?!
Worst of all, Yom cuts out the fact that right after the doorbell fakeout, Yuu texts Hikari letting her know her two friends came to visit him and tells her to thank them for him and to not be mad at them as they came without telling her. Right after that Hikari has dinner with her parents and they notice she's in a better mood.
huh, that's a fuck-ton of added info.
I dunno. I'm on team "Hikari deserves a break from being the handholder", so.
It sucks, but I think she's right to not be the one to try and save Ayami. She did that already, and at a certain point, you
have to prioritize yourself, no matter how much you might care about the other person.
But as far as Yuu goes....dawg's gotta fuckin' nut up and actually take a step himself, for once. His character's as stagnate as ever now that he's once again simply given up at the first sign of friction, reading the subtext from those texts, and if he really does care about her, he should walk that talk.
Hikari shouldn't be expected to save everyone, every time.
, thanks for the translation
