Yeah I feel like she has to come to terms with her feelings for him.Aika may not have liked him at first, obviously by how often she rebuffed him, but I kinda like that her feelings can still change and even grow. Now she has to face the uncomfortable reality that the weird but comfy, non-friend, non-romantic bickering relationship with Wataru that she was taking for granted, was all being carried by his old self, and when he suddenly stopped trying it's all gone.
I don't see the MC making a sudden 180 again anytime soon, so if anything it's on Aika to make the moves this time.
Not a novel reader, but from what I gathered from the anime and from the manga, Natsukawa is just stupid.I feel I am messing something in page 23.
The "I was mean to him" -> I decided to not let him get near my sister bit
any novel hear can explain if there was more logic in that sentence? I am missing something here.
bro i know, right?Not a novel reader, but from what I gathered from the anime and from the manga, Natsukawa is just stupid.
She's inconsiderate of Wataru's feelings, takes him for granted, and when he distances himself from her she doesn't think there's something wrong with HER attitude towards him, she thinks there's something wrong with HIM (hence the scene with him on the school rooftop talking to his sister and Natsukawa butts in belittling him in front of Kaede), and she thinks she needs to correct his behavior instead of looking at herself in the mirror.
She goes from "I was mean to him" to "I won't let you get close to my sister" because Wataru was physically near her and she felt like things had gone back to status quo, where she would say stuff like that and he would just stick to her saying how much worships the very air that she breathes.
So it's not uncharacteristic of her to behave that way, she felt bad because, in a rare moment of introspection she managed to realize she was at fault, but since things seemingly turned back to status quo for a moment, she decided she had no need to change and went back to pushing him away. Then he went away and now she's too stupid to realize why.
Yes, Aika is still in a kind of defensive mode against his formerly constant attempts at getting close to her (in that childish way). But it seems like she's beginning to analyse the situation.She sees belittling him in front of his classmates like that as a "greeting" and then wonder why he turns away so easily.
I know these are just teenagers, but Natsukawa's POV doesn't make anything to get her any favors from me.