Watashi de Doutei Suteta Kuse ni - Ch. 2 - The Rumored Kouhai (1)

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And there's another candidate to force them to realize they do still love eachother in that way by changing the status quo
 
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Sakura keeps teasing MC without any hesitation, and MC here is acting like a completely innocent guy even though he's already had segs with her :haa:

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I'll share Summary Light Novel Volume 2 here, WARNING : Please Don't Click if you Hate Spoiler. I Splitting this into 2 parts since it won't fit in 1 comment. here for part 1 =

★ Point:

Kouta and Sakura are still just as close as ever as childhood friends. They're so clingy with each other they look like an actual couple, even though they're not dating anymore and neither of them has romantic feelings for the other. But Sakura starts feeling hurt once she finds out Ui actually likes Kouta.

Characters:

Mc: Miyamachi Kouta

Heroine1: Houzenji Sakura

Heroine2: Asama Ui

Others:

Iwami

Kujou Mio

Nanba Ryousuke

Uehonmachi Hinako

Yoshino

The school exam results finally come out, and this time Kouta's scores are way better than before. That improvement's the result of him putting in real effort lately. After finding out his childhood friend Houzenji Sakura wants to become a novelist and is planning to go to college in Tokyo, Kouta starts thinking about his own future more seriously. He wants to keep being by Sakura's side, so he realizes he needs to catch up academically if he wants to end up on the same path as her.

Kouta's changes aren't just about his grades. He also starts working out a lot, jogging especially. His body slowly gets more toned, and that change in looks starts getting more girls to notice him.

Kouta's friend Nanba Ryousuke, as usual, is way more interested in how close Kouta and Sakura are. To Ryousuke they already look like a couple. They're together basically all the time and have a closeness that's hard to pass off as just normal friendship. But every time someone brings it up, Kouta and Sakura always deny it and say they're just childhood friends now.

The truth is, their relationship's way more complicated than that.

Kouta and Sakura actually used to date. Their relationship even went all the way to the sexual stage, and they've slept together before. Even so, that experience just left them more confused about what love even means. Even after doing all the stuff a couple usually does, neither Kouta nor Sakura could really see each other as a romantic partner.

In the end, they felt like being together wasn't that different from back when they were just childhood friends. That's why they decided to break up.

The question of what love actually means becomes a big deal again because Sakura's struggling to write her novel. The editor handling her previous work asked her to add a romance element to the story. But how's Sakura supposed to write about love if she doesn't even know what falling in love feels like herself?

Her experience with Kouta doesn't help much either. They dated, kissed, even slept together, but Sakura's never once felt anything she could actually call romantic love.

Looking for some kind of reference, one day while Sakura's hanging out in Kouta's room, she asks him to watch a romance anime together. She's hoping that watching how the characters experience and realize their feelings will help her understand what love actually feels like.

The anime's about a girl who's self-conscious about her body because she's taller than everyone around her. When she was a kid, she had a really close guy friend who was shorter than her. But once they hit middle school, the guy grew a lot taller and his looks changed completely. As he got more handsome and popular, the two of them slowly drifted apart.

Once they get to high school, fate brings them back together as classmates. That chance gets them talking again like before. From there, the main girl slowly starts noticing her childhood friend in a different way, until she finally realizes she's fallen for him.

After watching the anime, Sakura gets even more curious about what it really means to love someone. She tries asking Kouta what the difference is between just liking someone and actually loving them.

Kouta brings up Asama Ui. Doesn't Sakura like Ui too?

Sakura doesn't deny that she does like Ui. But that feeling comes from thinking Ui's cute and a hard worker. Sakura always wants to support her in chasing her dream. To her, that feeling isn't romantic at all.

Turns out Kouta feels pretty much the same way about Ui. So he can't really give Sakura the answer she's looking for either.

Sakura then remembers a scene from the anime where the main girl feels her heart race just from holding hands with the guy she loves. From that, Sakura figures maybe one sign of being in love is your heart racing when you're close to that person.

But that theory just makes things between Sakura and Kouta feel weird again.

Back when they were dating, Sakura never once felt her heart race because of Kouta. Kouta feels the exact same way. Looking back on that time, Kouta feels like they were just two childhood friends playing at being a couple.

Still curious, Sakura comes up with an idea.

If her heart's never raced for Kouta before, why not just try to create a situation that could actually make that happen.

Sakura tells Kouta to wait while she runs home for a bit to get ready. A little while later she comes back looking completely different. She's wearing her old middle school uniform, changed up her hair, put on makeup, and dolled herself up to look like a gyaru.

It's not just her looks that change. Sakura's whole attitude gets way more aggressive too.

She keeps teasing Kouta and even deliberately flashes her underwear just to see if that'll actually make her childhood friend's heart race.

Seeing Sakura getting more and more over the top, Kouta tries to stop her. But Sakura just keeps egging him on. The teasing eventually gets so bad that Kouta can barely hold himself back, to the point he threatens to actually sleep with her if she doesn't stop.

Instead of backing off scared, Sakura dares him to go ahead and do it.

The two of them almost end up having sex again, just like when they were dating.

Right before things go any further, Kouta's mom's voice comes from inside the house. She says she's heading out to go shopping.

That voice instantly snaps Kouta and Sakura back to reality, making them realize they'd gone way too far.

But Sakura still doesn't seem fully ready to stop. She even reminds Kouta that her period just ended, and says if they want to keep going, Kouta needs to use a condom.

The problem is, after breaking up with Sakura, Kouta already threw out every condom he used to have in his room.

When Kouta checks the time and says he has to head out, Sakura assumes he's going to buy condoms. She tells him not to bother since she's still got some back at her own place. Sakura even invites Kouta to come over so they can finish what they almost started.

Kouta teases her back, explaining that he's actually heading out because he has cram school, not to buy condoms.

Realizing she misunderstood, and that she basically just straight up invited Kouta to sleep with her, Sakura's face turns bright red from embarrassment.

Kouta then walks to cram school. He usually takes the train or rides his bike, but what just happened with Sakura has his head all messed up, so he decides to walk so he has time to calm down.

His decision to go to cram school on his own is also tied to Sakura. Kouta feels like he's still way behind academically. He once promised Sakura's parents he'd always stay by their daughter's side. Since Sakura wants to continue her studies in Tokyo, Kouta wants to improve his grades so he's still good enough to walk the same path as her.

After cram school's done, Kouta doesn't head straight home. He wants to keep studying on his own and looks for a quiet spot inside the building.

Heading toward the back stairs, Kouta accidentally spots two girls hugging each other. He recognizes one of them but doesn't want to butt into their business, so he decides to go to the cafeteria instead.

Not long after Kouta sits down there, the girl he saw earlier comes up to him.

That girl is Iwami, a tall girl with a look and presence that comes off as really cool.

Kouta first met Iwami through a pretty random encounter in town. Back then, Iwami was being hit on by another girl. The moment she spotted Kouta walking by, Iwami rushed over and made up a story that they were dating.

Kouta obviously denied it right away. He didn't want to get dragged into whatever was going on between Iwami and that girl. But his rejection actually ended up making Iwami interested in him. Since then, the two of them have run into each other a few times and ended up talking pretty often.

Since he's got Sakura's situation on his mind, Kouta decides to ask Iwami for her take. He asks what the actual difference is between liking someone as a person and liking them romantically.

According to Iwami, that's not really an easy question to answer for sure. Someone who's in love usually can't stop thinking about the person they love. Every little thing that person does becomes something that catches their attention and is hard to just ignore.

But since love's a matter of feelings, it's really hard to explain with words alone. Someone who's never experienced it probably won't really get that sensation.

Still, Iwami knows a way to at least fake something close to that racing-heart feeling, by using the suspension bridge effect.

That's when someone's heart races from fear, anxiety, or a tense situation, but that feeling gets mistakenly read as romantic attraction toward whoever they're with at the time.

Kouta figures that idea might actually help Sakura, so he passes Iwami's explanation on to her right away.

Sakura's immediately interested.

At first they consider places that could get the adrenaline going, like a haunted house. But since it's not the season for that, they can't find anywhere suitable. Bungee jumping comes up too, but Kouta's too scared to actually do it.

In the end Sakura suggests testing the effect literally, they actually want to go to a suspension bridge.

The problem is, the spot they found is pretty far and hard to reach by public transport. That's why Sakura suggests they both get their motorcycle licenses.

From that point on, the two of them start seriously studying so they can pass the license exam.

In the middle of getting ready for that, while Kouta and Sakura are walking to school together, they spot Asama Ui looking all flustered. Turns out Ui's nervous because she's about to start a part-time job.

Kouta and Sakura bring her to the empty classroom they usually hang out in and help her practice being a waitress.

Ui's not just working for allowance money. She dreams of becoming a voice actress. If she ever passes an audition and has to go to Tokyo for recording, she'll need travel money as a starting fund. That's why she wants to start saving up herself.

Ui's going to be working at an okonomiyaki restaurant.

During practice, the lines she says for serving customers are actually pretty good already. The problem is Ui's still too tense and doesn't smile enough.

Sakura tells Ui to imagine that the person in front of her is someone she sees as her savior, someone she's always wanted to meet again.

Meanwhile, Kouta's asked to play that person's role.

The scenario they picture is some future where Ui's already made it as a famous voice actress and finally meets again with the person who inspired her to go down that path.

Getting what Sakura's going for, Kouta congratulates Ui on her success.

Ui's reaction comes out completely on instinct. With a face full of happiness, she immediately hugs Kouta.

Kouta still has no idea that the person Ui's been looking for this whole time is actually him. Ui's known the truth since the previous volume. But she hasn't had the courage to say it, since she still feels like she's not good enough to stand next to Kouta.

Meanwhile, Kouta and Sakura's prep pays off. Both of them manage to get their motorcycle licenses.

After coming back from the test, they plan to try riding the motorcycles they have at home around the neighborhood first. They want to get used to riding before heading out on the long trip to the suspension bridge.

But while they're at the station, they run into Ui again. This time the girl looks scared.

Kouta and Sakura rush over to her right away.

At first Ui just tells them a new voice actress audition's coming up soon. They immediately hype her up. But Kouta notices something's off about Ui and asks her what's actually going on.

Ui finally admits that lately she's been feeling like someone she doesn't know has been watching her.

Realizing there might be a stalker involved, Kouta and Sakura offer to protect Ui until the problem's sorted out.

They end up talking to the police about it. Unfortunately, there's no real damage or enough evidence yet, and the identity of whoever's been following Ui is still unknown. Because of that, the police can't really take any further action yet.

Kouta and Sakura decide to protect Ui themselves. Every day they pick her up, walk her to school together, drop her off at her part-time job, then make sure she gets home safe.

On her first day of work, Ui runs into trouble since she's not used to the job yet. While carrying drinks, she loses her balance and nearly falls.

Kouta, who's been watching her the whole time, moves fast and manages to catch Ui, even though it ends up soaking him completely in the drinks.

The restaurant doesn't make a big deal out of the mistake. They actually think Ui's done pretty well for her first day. She even gets to go home early.

But once they get home, they find something way more worrying.

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Previous Summary Spoiler from Light Novel Volume 1 you can check this thread :

VOL 1 : CLICK HERE
 
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I'll share Summary Light Novel Volume 2 here, WARNING : Please Don't Click if you Hate Spoiler. I Splitting this into 2 parts since it won't fit in 1 comment. here for part 1 =

★ Point:

Kouta and Sakura are still just as close as ever as childhood friends. They're so clingy with each other they look like an actual couple, even though they're not dating anymore and neither of them has romantic feelings for the other. But Sakura starts feeling hurt once she finds out Ui actually likes Kouta.
Summary Light Novel Volume 2 Part 2

A letter from an unknown sender's been sent to Ui. It's full of support, but it also says the sender's always been watching her.

That letter just makes it even more obvious someone's really been keeping tabs on her.

Sakura then wants to understand how a stalker like that actually thinks. On top of hoping to find clues about who it is and how to deal with them, Sakura also wants to use the experience as material for her novel.

So Sakura asks Kouta to run an experiment where they try stalking each other.

Sakura starts by secretly swapping or planting her personal stuff with Kouta's belongings.

Like when it's Sakura's turn to make their lunches, she secretly swaps her chopsticks with Kouta's. Kouta actually already felt something was off since morning, but only realizes it after Sakura gives him a hint.

Sakura also swaps their handkerchiefs.

The most extreme move happens at Kouta's house. Sakura secretly puts her underwear in Kouta's clothes drawer, like she wants to leave proof she exists among her childhood friend's personal stuff.

Of course Kouta doesn't want to lose. He wants to give Sakura a way bigger surprise.

One day, while Sakura's hanging out in Kouta's room like usual, Kouta pretends he's heading to cram school. But instead of actually going, he secretly sneaks into Sakura's house and slips into her room.

Kouta's original plan is to mess up Sakura's room to surprise her. Unfortunately, her room's already a mess to begin with, so that plan's basically pointless.

While Kouta's still figuring out what to do, Sakura suddenly comes home.

The moment Sakura walks into her room, Kouta ambushes her from behind and covers her mouth.

Sakura has no idea at all that it's Kouta attacking her. Thinking she's actually being attacked by a stranger, she panics and tries to fight back as hard as she can. But Sakura can't overpower the person holding her down.

Kouta only realizes his joke's gone too far once he feels Sakura's tears on the hand covering her mouth.

He lets go of Sakura right away and tells her it's him.

Once she knows the truth, Sakura feels relieved but also furious. She admits she genuinely thought she was about to get raped by a stranger. In her panic, Sakura even briefly thought that if that had actually happened, she'd be "dirty" and could never be by Kouta's side like before.

Feeling guilty, Kouta immediately hugs her and tries to calm her down.

Still in Kouta's arms, Sakura tells him he needs to take responsibility for scaring her like that. She asks Kouta to kiss her.

But since they're not a couple anymore, Kouta just kisses her forehead.

Sakura doesn't look satisfied with that at all.

In return, Sakura kisses Kouta's neck and leaves a hickey there. With that, it's like Sakura's marking Kouta as hers, even though both of them keep insisting they're just childhood friends.

One day, Sakura has to go pick up Ui from work alone since Kouta's at cram school.

There, Kouta runs into Iwami again.

From their conversation, Kouta gets another piece of advice. According to Iwami, if someone likes or admires another person too much, one way to kill that feeling is to disappoint them. By ruining the ideal image that person has, their interest might fade.

Kouta passes that advice on to Sakura right away.

Hearing Kouta keep coming up with ideas that help solve her problems, Sakura tells him he'd actually be a perfect fit as her novel editor. Kouta always manages to find a way out whenever Sakura's stuck on something she can't solve on her own.

Meanwhile, Sakura, who just picked up Ui on her motorcycle, starts feeling like someone's following them.

Once they hit a fairly quiet road, Sakura tells Ui to hop on her bike and immediately speeds up toward Ui's house.

A black car's seen following them from behind.

That situation genuinely terrifies Sakura and Ui. Once they get to Ui's house, Sakura even just leaves her bike there and runs straight inside with Ui before locking the door.

Sakura then calls Kouta.

The moment he hears what's going on, Kouta doesn't ask much and just heads straight to Ui's house.

While waiting for him to show up, Sakura and Ui hide out in Ui's room. That's where Sakura accidentally finds a story titled (Sakura Uguisu).

Sakura recognizes it right away.

That story's something she wrote when she was a kid, and it was only ever supposed to be known by four people. So Sakura can't figure out how Ui ended up having it.

When asked, Ui finally reveals a secret she's been keeping this whole time.

Turns out Ui's the little girl Kouta and Sakura once met at daycare when they were kids.

Ui then reveals an even bigger secret.

The person she's always called her savior, the person she's always wanted to see again, and the whole reason she's been chasing her dream of becoming a voice actress, is Kouta.

That confession makes Sakura's heart hurt.

This whole time Sakura's been fully supporting Ui. She saw the girl's life like the story of a main character chasing her dream while searching for someone who means a lot to her. Sakura even hoped Ui could one day be reunited with that person, like it was some kind of fate.

But Sakura never would've guessed that the person Ui's been waiting for this whole time is Kouta.

After learning the truth, Sakura starts keeping her distance from Kouta.

That change is really out of character for her. Even in class, Sakura, who usually always talks to Kouta, barely even speaks to him anymore.

It's only when they're studying together in Kouta's room that they finally talk about it openly.

Sakura admits she feels guilty.

She's been staying by Kouta's side this whole time. Sakura starts thinking that maybe her being around is getting in the way of other girls who like Kouta from getting close to him. So she feels like she should give him a bit of distance.

But to Kouta, what Sakura's doing just makes him feel sad and lonely.

They've been together since they were kids. Sakura's presence has basically become part of Kouta's life, so when she suddenly pulls away, Kouta immediately feels empty.

Kouta asks Sakura to imagine the opposite. If Kouta suddenly pulled away from her to give some other guy a chance with Sakura, would she really not feel lonely?

Sakura can't deny it.

Turns out her answer's the same as Kouta's. Sakura doesn't want Kouta to pull away from her either.

After they both put their feelings out there, the distance that had crept in finally disappears. The next day, Sakura's back to acting like herself.

The whole stalker situation with Ui finally gets cleared up when Ui, Sakura, and Kouta go hang out at Kaiyukan aquarium.

There, they find out the person who's been following Ui this whole time is (Kujou Mio), a girl around Ui's age from the same voice acting training school.

Mio actually just wanted to be friends with Ui. The problem is she didn't know how to approach her. So the ways she chose, like giving gifts, sending letters, constantly watching her, and following her from a distance, ended up just making her look like a stalker.

After finally meeting face to face and talking it out with Sakura and Kouta's help, the misunderstanding gets sorted out.

Ui and Mio end up becoming friends. Since they're both chasing the same dream of becoming voice actresses, they're rivals too.

After the stalker situation's over, Ui and Sakura actually get even closer.

They start hanging out a lot at Ui's place, just the two of them talking as girls.

But it's during one of those hangouts that Ui finally realizes something about her own feelings she hadn't understood before.

Ever since she was a kid, Ui's always looked up to Kouta.

Back when Ui struggled to talk to other people, Kouta was the kid who reached out to her and brought her in to play with the other kids. That moment had a huge impact on Ui's life.

Kouta's also the main reason Ui chose to chase her dream of becoming a voice actress.

That's why for years Ui just saw her feelings as admiration for her savior. She wanted to meet Kouta again once she'd become someone she could be proud of, and even after finding out who Kouta really was, Ui still felt like she wasn't good enough to stand by his side.

But after spending more and more time with Kouta, that feeling slowly starts to change.

Ui finally realizes she's not just admiring Kouta anymore.

She's in love with him.

When Ui tells Sakura how she feels, Sakura can only go quiet from the shock.

Once again, Sakura feels that ache in her chest.

This whole time she's been supporting Ui in finding her way back to the person who saved her. But now that she knows that person's Kouta, Sakura's starting to feel an emotion she's never understood before.
 
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Sakura keeps teasing MC without any hesitation, and MC here is acting like a completely innocent guy even though he's already had segs with her :haa:

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I'll share Summary Light Novel Volume 2 here, WARNING : Please Don't Click if you Hate Spoiler. I Splitting this into 2 parts since it won't fit in 1 comment. here for part 1 =

★ Point:

Kouta and Sakura are still just as close as ever as childhood friends. They're so clingy with each other they look like an actual couple, even though they're not dating anymore and neither of them has romantic feelings for the other. But Sakura starts feeling hurt once she finds out Ui actually likes Kouta.

Thank you for translation

Previous Summary Spoiler from Light Novel Volume 1 you can check this thread :

VOL 1 : CLICK HERE
Summary Light Novel Volume 2 Part 2

A letter from an unknown sender's been sent to Ui. It's full of support, but it also says the sender's always been watching her.

That letter just makes it even more obvious someone's really been keeping tabs on her.

Sakura then wants to understand how a stalker like that actually thinks. On top of hoping to find clues about who it is and how to deal with them, Sakura also wants to use the experience as material for her novel.

So Sakura asks Kouta to run an experiment where they try stalking each other.
Thank you for Spoiler dude :hearts:
 
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his reaction to her teasing is VERY off
technically, he's supposed to be past that point, but it's like the mangaka doesn't know how someone like that would react

this is the same issue that some authors have when writing characters smarter than they are
and in this case, writing a character more confident than them
 
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his reaction to her teasing is VERY off
technically, he's supposed to be past that point, but it's like the mangaka doesn't know how someone like that would react

this is the same issue that some authors have when writing characters smarter than they are
and in this case, writing a character more confident than them
I get what you mean, it's a pet peeve of mine. The biggest offender of this trope are certain transmigration / reincarnation manga/manhwa where they're clearly an adult before regressing/reincartnating and still maintain said memories and level headed thinking yet still acts and gets easily flustered like a kid
 
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Sakura keeps teasing MC without any hesitation, and MC here is acting like a completely innocent guy even though he's already had segs with her :haa:

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I'll share Summary Light Novel Volume 2 here, WARNING : Please Don't Click if you Hate Spoiler. I Splitting this into 2 parts since it won't fit in 1 comment. here for part 1 =

★ Point:

Kouta and Sakura are still just as close as ever as childhood friends. They're so clingy with each other they look like an actual couple, even though they're not dating anymore and neither of them has romantic feelings for the other. But Sakura starts feeling hurt once she finds out Ui actually likes Kouta.

Characters:

Mc: Miyamachi Kouta

Heroine1: Houzenji Sakura

Heroine2: Asama Ui

Others:

Iwami

Kujou Mio

Nanba Ryousuke

Uehonmachi Hinako

Yoshino

The school exam results finally come out, and this time Kouta's scores are way better than before. That improvement's the result of him putting in real effort lately. After finding out his childhood friend Houzenji Sakura wants to become a novelist and is planning to go to college in Tokyo, Kouta starts thinking about his own future more seriously. He wants to keep being by Sakura's side, so he realizes he needs to catch up academically if he wants to end up on the same path as her.

Kouta's changes aren't just about his grades. He also starts working out a lot, jogging especially. His body slowly gets more toned, and that change in looks starts getting more girls to notice him.

Kouta's friend Nanba Ryousuke, as usual, is way more interested in how close Kouta and Sakura are. To Ryousuke they already look like a couple. They're together basically all the time and have a closeness that's hard to pass off as just normal friendship. But every time someone brings it up, Kouta and Sakura always deny it and say they're just childhood friends now.

The truth is, their relationship's way more complicated than that.

Kouta and Sakura actually used to date. Their relationship even went all the way to the sexual stage, and they've slept together before. Even so, that experience just left them more confused about what love even means. Even after doing all the stuff a couple usually does, neither Kouta nor Sakura could really see each other as a romantic partner.

In the end, they felt like being together wasn't that different from back when they were just childhood friends. That's why they decided to break up.

The question of what love actually means becomes a big deal again because Sakura's struggling to write her novel. The editor handling her previous work asked her to add a romance element to the story. But how's Sakura supposed to write about love if she doesn't even know what falling in love feels like herself?

Her experience with Kouta doesn't help much either. They dated, kissed, even slept together, but Sakura's never once felt anything she could actually call romantic love.

Looking for some kind of reference, one day while Sakura's hanging out in Kouta's room, she asks him to watch a romance anime together. She's hoping that watching how the characters experience and realize their feelings will help her understand what love actually feels like.

The anime's about a girl who's self-conscious about her body because she's taller than everyone around her. When she was a kid, she had a really close guy friend who was shorter than her. But once they hit middle school, the guy grew a lot taller and his looks changed completely. As he got more handsome and popular, the two of them slowly drifted apart.

Once they get to high school, fate brings them back together as classmates. That chance gets them talking again like before. From there, the main girl slowly starts noticing her childhood friend in a different way, until she finally realizes she's fallen for him.

After watching the anime, Sakura gets even more curious about what it really means to love someone. She tries asking Kouta what the difference is between just liking someone and actually loving them.

Kouta brings up Asama Ui. Doesn't Sakura like Ui too?

Sakura doesn't deny that she does like Ui. But that feeling comes from thinking Ui's cute and a hard worker. Sakura always wants to support her in chasing her dream. To her, that feeling isn't romantic at all.

Turns out Kouta feels pretty much the same way about Ui. So he can't really give Sakura the answer she's looking for either.

Sakura then remembers a scene from the anime where the main girl feels her heart race just from holding hands with the guy she loves. From that, Sakura figures maybe one sign of being in love is your heart racing when you're close to that person.

But that theory just makes things between Sakura and Kouta feel weird again.

Back when they were dating, Sakura never once felt her heart race because of Kouta. Kouta feels the exact same way. Looking back on that time, Kouta feels like they were just two childhood friends playing at being a couple.

Still curious, Sakura comes up with an idea.

If her heart's never raced for Kouta before, why not just try to create a situation that could actually make that happen.

Sakura tells Kouta to wait while she runs home for a bit to get ready. A little while later she comes back looking completely different. She's wearing her old middle school uniform, changed up her hair, put on makeup, and dolled herself up to look like a gyaru.

It's not just her looks that change. Sakura's whole attitude gets way more aggressive too.

She keeps teasing Kouta and even deliberately flashes her underwear just to see if that'll actually make her childhood friend's heart race.

Seeing Sakura getting more and more over the top, Kouta tries to stop her. But Sakura just keeps egging him on. The teasing eventually gets so bad that Kouta can barely hold himself back, to the point he threatens to actually sleep with her if she doesn't stop.

Instead of backing off scared, Sakura dares him to go ahead and do it.

The two of them almost end up having sex again, just like when they were dating.

Right before things go any further, Kouta's mom's voice comes from inside the house. She says she's heading out to go shopping.

That voice instantly snaps Kouta and Sakura back to reality, making them realize they'd gone way too far.

But Sakura still doesn't seem fully ready to stop. She even reminds Kouta that her period just ended, and says if they want to keep going, Kouta needs to use a condom.

The problem is, after breaking up with Sakura, Kouta already threw out every condom he used to have in his room.

When Kouta checks the time and says he has to head out, Sakura assumes he's going to buy condoms. She tells him not to bother since she's still got some back at her own place. Sakura even invites Kouta to come over so they can finish what they almost started.

Kouta teases her back, explaining that he's actually heading out because he has cram school, not to buy condoms.

Realizing she misunderstood, and that she basically just straight up invited Kouta to sleep with her, Sakura's face turns bright red from embarrassment.

Kouta then walks to cram school. He usually takes the train or rides his bike, but what just happened with Sakura has his head all messed up, so he decides to walk so he has time to calm down.

His decision to go to cram school on his own is also tied to Sakura. Kouta feels like he's still way behind academically. He once promised Sakura's parents he'd always stay by their daughter's side. Since Sakura wants to continue her studies in Tokyo, Kouta wants to improve his grades so he's still good enough to walk the same path as her.

After cram school's done, Kouta doesn't head straight home. He wants to keep studying on his own and looks for a quiet spot inside the building.

Heading toward the back stairs, Kouta accidentally spots two girls hugging each other. He recognizes one of them but doesn't want to butt into their business, so he decides to go to the cafeteria instead.

Not long after Kouta sits down there, the girl he saw earlier comes up to him.

That girl is Iwami, a tall girl with a look and presence that comes off as really cool.

Kouta first met Iwami through a pretty random encounter in town. Back then, Iwami was being hit on by another girl. The moment she spotted Kouta walking by, Iwami rushed over and made up a story that they were dating.

Kouta obviously denied it right away. He didn't want to get dragged into whatever was going on between Iwami and that girl. But his rejection actually ended up making Iwami interested in him. Since then, the two of them have run into each other a few times and ended up talking pretty often.

Since he's got Sakura's situation on his mind, Kouta decides to ask Iwami for her take. He asks what the actual difference is between liking someone as a person and liking them romantically.

According to Iwami, that's not really an easy question to answer for sure. Someone who's in love usually can't stop thinking about the person they love. Every little thing that person does becomes something that catches their attention and is hard to just ignore.

But since love's a matter of feelings, it's really hard to explain with words alone. Someone who's never experienced it probably won't really get that sensation.

Still, Iwami knows a way to at least fake something close to that racing-heart feeling, by using the suspension bridge effect.

That's when someone's heart races from fear, anxiety, or a tense situation, but that feeling gets mistakenly read as romantic attraction toward whoever they're with at the time.

Kouta figures that idea might actually help Sakura, so he passes Iwami's explanation on to her right away.

Sakura's immediately interested.

At first they consider places that could get the adrenaline going, like a haunted house. But since it's not the season for that, they can't find anywhere suitable. Bungee jumping comes up too, but Kouta's too scared to actually do it.

In the end Sakura suggests testing the effect literally, they actually want to go to a suspension bridge.

The problem is, the spot they found is pretty far and hard to reach by public transport. That's why Sakura suggests they both get their motorcycle licenses.

From that point on, the two of them start seriously studying so they can pass the license exam.

In the middle of getting ready for that, while Kouta and Sakura are walking to school together, they spot Asama Ui looking all flustered. Turns out Ui's nervous because she's about to start a part-time job.

Kouta and Sakura bring her to the empty classroom they usually hang out in and help her practice being a waitress.

Ui's not just working for allowance money. She dreams of becoming a voice actress. If she ever passes an audition and has to go to Tokyo for recording, she'll need travel money as a starting fund. That's why she wants to start saving up herself.

Ui's going to be working at an okonomiyaki restaurant.

During practice, the lines she says for serving customers are actually pretty good already. The problem is Ui's still too tense and doesn't smile enough.

Sakura tells Ui to imagine that the person in front of her is someone she sees as her savior, someone she's always wanted to meet again.

Entretanto, Kouta é convidado a interpretar o papel dessa pessoa.

O cenário que eles imaginam é um futuro onde Ui já se tornou uma dubladora famosa e finalmente reencontra a pessoa que a inspirou a seguir esse caminho.

Entendendo o que Sakura queria dizer, Kouta parabeniza Ui pelo seu sucesso.

A reação de Ui surge completamente por instinto. Com o rosto radiante de felicidade, ela imediatamente abraça Kouta.

Kouta ainda não faz ideia de que a pessoa que Ui procura há tanto tempo é, na verdade, ele. Ui sabe a verdade desde o volume anterior, mas não teve coragem de dizer, pois ainda se sente insuficiente para estar ao lado de Kouta.

Enquanto isso, a preparação de Kouta e Sakura dá resultado. Ambos conseguem tirar suas carteiras de habilitação para motocicleta.

Após voltarem do teste, eles planejam experimentar pilotar as motocicletas que têm em casa, dando umas voltas pelo bairro. Eles querem se acostumar a pilotar antes de partirem para a longa viagem até a ponte suspensa.

Mas, enquanto estão na estação, encontram Ui novamente. Desta vez, a garota parece assustada.

Kouta e Sakura correm imediatamente até ela.

A princípio, Ui apenas lhes conta que haverá uma audição para uma nova dubladora em breve. Eles imediatamente ficam animados com ela. Mas Kouta percebe que algo está errado com Ui e pergunta o que está acontecendo.

Ui finalmente admite que ultimamente tem sentido como se alguém que ela não conhece a estivesse observando.

Ao perceberem que poderia haver um perseguidor envolvido, Kouta e Sakura se oferecem para proteger Ui até que o problema seja resolvido.

Eles acabaram falando com a polícia sobre o ocorrido. Infelizmente, ainda não há danos reais ou provas suficientes, e a identidade de quem estava seguindo Ui permanece desconhecida. Por isso, a polícia ainda não pode tomar nenhuma providência.

Kouta e Sakura decidem proteger Ui por conta própria. Todos os dias, eles a buscam, a acompanham até a escola, a deixam em seu trabalho de meio período e depois se certificam de que ela chegue em casa em segurança.

Em seu primeiro dia de trabalho, Ui se depara com um problema, já que ainda não está acostumada com a função. Ao carregar bebidas, ela perde o equilíbrio e quase cai.

Kouta, que a observava o tempo todo, se move rapidamente e consegue pegar Ui, embora acabe completamente encharcado pelas bebidas.

O restaurante não deu muita importância ao erro. Na verdade, eles acharam que a Ui se saiu muito bem para o primeiro dia dela. Ela até pôde ir para casa mais cedo.

Mas, ao chegarem em casa, encontram algo muito mais preocupante.

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Obrigado pela tradução.

Resumo anterior (Spoiler do Volume 1 da Light Novel) você pode conferir neste tópico:

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