Aaand the illusion shattered, they no longer feel like real people even a little bit and they're just 2 dumbass leads in a romance manga, parody versions of extremely rare types of people
I had already mentally tagged this as the "nothing ever happens manga", but goddamn this is taking the piss. Like, if Ichikawa in Boku no Yaba said that to Yamada at the equivalent time in the story she'd get mad at him because he didn't consider her even a friend before.