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About how they are adressing Chizuru's feelings:
YES. But that is because all these chapters are going to develop a deep point of view of how and what are Chizuru's feelings. Until now, we don't have a complete access of something, concretely speaking, about her feelings. We, as readers, just have images of her, blushing or crying or smiling or calling herself BAKA. In the other hand, we have access of what are Kasuya's feelings because he is constantly thinking and sharing his thoughts in the narrative.
In early chapters we only have three characters that have asked about her feelings:
[ul]Ruka, during the new year celebration: She touch Chizuru's chest to feel her heartbeats and ask her if she likes him, and if she isn't the one who want to become Kasuya's real girlfriend. Chizuru's answer was a deep silence.
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[ul]Kuribayashi, during the date with Chizuru organized by kasuya: He asks her if a rental can fall in love with a costumer. She just answer... "Who knows..." After that, Kuri deduced that Chizuru has fallen in love with Kasuya.
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[ul]And... MAMI! In the dialogue in the bridge. "You are a
woman, so I was wondering if such thing could happen"[/ul]
About UMI and what awaits in the future:
I really believed that REIJI won't portray Umi with that relentless personality. Sorta give us a bad feeling, don't you think?
He doesn't understand a thing! His understanding of the situation is even less than the understanding of the MC haters in this commentary section every week. Some friend should tell him: "BRO... SHE REJECTED YOU THREE TIMES, NOT ONLY ONE, NOR TWO... THREE BLOODY TIMES!!! Just leave her alone!" It does seem that Umi doesn't know when he is defeated, right? He doesn't know how to lose! AND THEN THAT INVASIVE QUESTION!!!
A perfect answer after those relentless offerings should be: "I don't want to be rude, but that's none of your business", but since he is Chizuru's friend, same acting school, same friends, (Umi's ex is her friend, I guess) ... I believe she will try to DODGE THE QUESTION, but how?
[ul]What if she says NO: She will be lying without any reason. That answer, even if it's a lie, could even give Umi more oxygen to keep going the pressure. No, She won't say NO. [/ul]
[ul]What if she says YES: Despite this is the truth.. YES, THE TRUTH... She will be exposing her feelings in front of Umi... THAT'S OUT OF THE QUESTION![/ul]
It comes to my mind that this could be the best answer, It will tell indirectly the truth, dodge directly the question and totally shut him down:
As for Umi.. I really hope his development doesn't incline to become an evil character. Even teaming up with Mami, for fulfill their obsessive desires in some sort of evil vs good plot... I don't like it, until now, the narrative has a lot of discipline to describe slowly the events of a weird relationship between two persons who are gradually falling deeply in love with the other. However, we will see Umi again. That is 100% sure.