Ugg my March Madness bracket is in shambles and now I have to read another chapter of this manga that leaves out sooooo much information from the novel.
In the novel, right between Hikari asking Yuu to talk and him starting to talk (so pages 3 and 4 of this chapter), Yuu says "Yami-senpai is the first person who has ever saved me in my life...and the first person I've ever had to save in my life." This causes Hikari to think that his statement is a death sentence for her aka her chances of having any sort of romantic relationship with Yuu. It's compounded further on when she realizes that Yuu and Yami are 30 steps ahead of her.
Then, when they're arguing on pages 6 & 7 about who helped melt Yami's heart and the fact that they both "broke" Yami again, Hikari thinks "Should I give Ta-kun to Aya-chan? But would that even make Aya-chan happy? And more importantly, would that even be something I could accept?" I would assume that's a big enough reveal to make the manga but nope.
Also, regarding the whole "we broke Yami thing" - seriously barf - Yami did the heavy lifting there. If you want to think about it logically, Hikari had no clue that Yami and Yuu even knew each other until she witnessed the kiss and Yuu had no clue that Yami and Hikari knew each other until he met Yami in the classroom. For both Yuu and Hikari to try to take ownership of Yami breaking is lame and frankly kind of insulting to the reader.
Right after page 8 in the manga, in the novel Hikari thinks "I won't let the weakling Ta-kun decide anything right now because he's the one who lied to me in the first place. So from now on I will only follow my own feelings. I won't allow him, a liar, to run away for that reason alone. That's right, okay? I won't let you get away, Ta-kun" - I think this is a pretty big revelation that gets zero mention in the manga.
Then on page 11 after Hikari has asked about how much Yuu liked Yami and her there's nothing further but in the novel, Hikari thinks "So, if his feelings for Aya aren't a lie, then his feelings for me aren't a lie either, is that it? He's so indecisive! Well, I guess I'm a chicken for using the past tense when asking about his love for Aya." Again, we're getting all these insights into Hikari's mindsight and they are not making it to the manga.
Finally, in the novel, right after Hikari puts her hand over Yuu's we get the following insight into her mind: "He could easily break free if he just shook me off. But he doesn't run away. Of course not, right? Because he really, really, really liked me. Those kind of feelings don't just disappear so easily. I'm sure that's true of his feelings for Aya-chan too."
Seriously, we get all these insights into Hikari's mind and none of the really good stuff is shared in the manga. I would venture to say that most of the people reading this on Mangadex don't bother to click on the novel link in the description and go read it. I just don't understand why they leave so much out.
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