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“Did you want to go to my high school that badly?”
“That’s why I applied. I studied desperately, at least.”
But family stuff like that doesn’t bother me much right now. Because I’m happy.
In all my… well, still short life so far, I’m at my happiest.
“Did you really want to go to school with her?”
So, maybe a little too recklessly, I end up stepping on such a landmine.
“…If I’d gotten in, I’d be in the same year as you too, Yami-senpai.”
“…I see.”
Yuu… took his time, choosing his words carefully to defuse the mine I’d stepped on.
But that kindness only stirs my heart even more.
Does Yuu realize it? One of the many reasons I haven’t gone back to school.
Because she, the person I don’t want to know about or see, is there.
I can’t answer “it’s not like that anymore” or “I don’t care.” Even now, Yuu has lingering feelings for a girl I’ve never even met…
At first, I asked all sorts of questions just to tease him. But now, I don’t ask about her or about Yuu’s feelings for her anymore.
Her name, the middle school they went to, even the rough area…
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Because their current day dynamic needs to built, and that entails talking about their break up.Can we go back to the present time now? Or at least speed up this arc? Seems to me that these chapters are just filler ones.
It's also been 3 months since their first night together btw.Wow, Ayami was 'fixed' by love, and now she’s MOTIVATED—what innovative storytelling... Truly original; I’ve never seen anything like it before...
Anyway, what I’m most curious about is why it took Ayami so long to realize that Hikari was the girl Yuu was pursuing. Here’s an excerpt from the latest chapter of the novel that delves deeper into a point, which was only briefly mentioned in this chapter of the manga:
At some point, Ayami returned to school, and Hikari became, in her own words, her “best friend.” So how did Ayami not connect the dots? Were there really so many girls fitting the information Yuu gave her that she didn’t even consider the possibility it might be Hikari?
Thanks for the chapter!