Cover page: “How come one would feel quite happy within the
embrace of the person one likes the most.” Koharu is at the peak of happiness
since her friends and family wishes her well regarding her romance with her
childhood friend, Natsuki. “Even if that is quite good..huh? Why am I being
embraced by Tsudzuki-kun?” Koharu is surprised that her heart is beating quite
fast. She holds on his shirt and calls out Touya’s name. Touya snaps out of it
and pushes Koharu away. Looking away, Touya apologizes and says that he simply
had a dream. Touya looks surprised when Koharu asks what kind of dream. Suddenly,
Natsuki arrives and apologizes for being late for his manager won’t let go off
him. Koharu tells him ‘good job’. Natsuki says that he just bumped into Aki and
Nishina so they will be here soon. Koharu hears the flipping of pages. She
glances at Touya who is quietly reading his book. She thinks that she lost the
opportunity to [further] ask what kind of dream it was. While handling out
forms, Nishina tells them that their committee is going to plan together with
the student council to make the cultural festival livelier. Aki is the one
assigned to be the one who’ll communicate with the student council. As he is
telling the others about the schedule, Koharu glances at Touya and wonders what
kind of dream it was for him to be still drowsy and suddenly do that kind of
thing. With sparkles in her eyes, she assumes that Touya is dreaming about the
person he likes – some beautiful woman to whom he said, ‘I like you’. But then,
he said that love is boring to death though he also helped cheer her up before
so this person’s way of thinking is quite strange. After the meeting ends and
everyone leaves, Nishina tells them to report to him next week regarding their
opinions. While walking, Natsuki apologizes to Koharu that he must go back to
the club. Koharu holds his sleeve and recalls Touya’s hug. She asks Natsuki to
hug her tight. This made Natsuki blush that it embarrasses Koharu. She turns to
the side and apologizes for in the end, it is still.. Natsuki hugs her and says
that she asked such a cute request so don’t run away. Koharu blushes and says
okay. Koharu compares what it is like to be hugged by someone one likes –
forceful yet gentle as if saying that he’ll protect her and she’s at ease. She
likes Natsuki’s hug for it is quite warm.
In the old abandoned school building, Touya is playing the
piano. He recalls Koharu asking what kind of dream it is. He stops playing and
clenches his fist upon recalling their hug. Scowling, Touya mutters if it was a
passionate dream. That night, Koharu happily holds up Copan [dog] and exclaims
that love is very beautiful for even if there is pain and difficulty but at the
same time, there is happiness. So, she doesn’t understand the feelings of
someone saying that love is nonsense. She wonders if Touya hasn’t felt that
warmth in his heart brought about by love and perhaps, he simply hasn’t fallen
in love yet so if it is like that. She hopes that Touya would soon encounter a
beautiful romance. Just as Koharu is kissing Copan [being affectionate], her
younger sisters see her. They exclaim, explode, riajuu [= internet slang for a
person who is satisfied with his or her real (offline) life] that Koharu
exclaims where they learned that and what is the kindergarten school teaching
them. They exclaim, ‘Kiss! Kiss!’ After school dismissal, Koharu reminds
Natsuki about the committee meeting. Natsuki apologizes that there is also club
today so he’ll leave first. While walking, Koharu thinks that Natsuki is quite
busy with the club lately so next time, she’ll bring him some consolation[/treat].
Then, she spots Touya by the shoe lockers that she wonders if he’s going home
and he didn’t know that there is a meeting. Just when she is going to call out
to him, she sees a blushing girl with Touya. Koharu quickly hides as the girl
confesses to Touya that she likes him and it is love at first sight during the
entrance ceremony. The girl gives Touya a letter and asks him to read it.
Koharu is quite excited over this for Touya is obviously quite popular so
what’s boring to death about it. To her surprise, Touya tells the girl that he
doesn’t want to and it is too troublesome. Touya left and Koharu chases after
him outside the school. [<- that probably took time because she changed her
shoes] Koharu tells Touya that he’s too mean for it wasn’t easily for that girl
to gather up her courage so [he should] accept that letter. Touya says that it
has nothing to do with her. As Touya continues to walk away, Koharu calls out
for him to wait. She trips and falls flat on her face. As she complains that it
hurts, Touya holds out his hand to her and asks if she is okay. Koharu says
that he is obviously quite nice and she doesn’t want to see him continue on
belittling love.
Slightly flustered, Touya frowns. He turns around and starts
walking away. Koharu calls out to him that even if she doesn’t understand but
why would he think that love is very boring because for her, she thinks that
love is a beautiful thing. Koharu looks flustered. She chases after Touya and
says that even if it is him, didn’t he also dreamt of the person he likes.
“About that, someone told me that if you have someone that you are interested
in, you only need three seconds to know your feelings. You only have to look at
that girl’s eyes and then, you’ll know whether or not, you like her.” Koharu
grabs his sleeve and Touya turns around. 1-Touya looks surprised. 2-blushing
Koharu looks at him. And 3- tense Touya blushes really red. Back at the club,
Natsuki closes his locker that the others ask if he has committee meeting
again. Natsuki apologizes and says that he’ll quickly come back. The others
start to tease him that a cute childhood friend is waiting for him and what
happened during summer, surely they did lots of stuff and what is it like to
have H[/sex] with his childhood friend. Suddenly, a female senpai slams her
full chest into Natsuki’s face and tells him not to prioritize the committee. Natsuki
calls her Akagi [guesswork from 赤井]. Akagi says that as manager’s
order, Natsuki is to prioritize the club and if he misses his girlfriend, he
can just touch her chest. Blushing Natsuki declines and tells her not to waver
him. Akagi says that he was obviously happy when he entered the club so he
really loves his girlfriend. Natsuki blushes but didn’t reply. Naohiro laughs
and tells Natsuki not to think that he can slip away from Akagi. Then, he
teases Natsuki that he was Koharu’s first boyfriend. Natsuki angrily grabs his
towel and says that it is just first date. Before running off, Naohiro
continues to tease Natsuki that they should be intimate [with each other] so
there’s no need for him to be greedy and just calm down. Natsuki mutters how he
can calm down for Koharu had become cuter and more beautiful that it is
impossible not to worry. “Who knows whether or not, there will be a serious
competitive rival who’ll appear?” Koharu looks surprised at blushing Touya.
Comment: My first
thought is lead girl is meddlesome enough that she unintentionally made a
potential love rival for her, who is minding his own business, realize that he
likes her and add to that, she is doing that because she wants him to
experience the beauty of love. Hehe, so much for changing his view about love,
because she is about to give him a broken heart. But then, it is possible that
Touya knows/in denial about it that is why he said that love is nonsense in order
to distance himself from her. Well, I hope that it isn’t because of his parents
separated/divorce trauma which had already tackled in the other series. Aside
from treating her nice but kind of avoiding her since he is leaving early
instead of going to the club meeting, it does seem that he somewhat knows or
unconsciously knows. I guess because Koharu is so happily in love, she wants
everyone to experience not knowing the thing called unrequited love..wait, she
does know that but maybe she forgot. ^^;; I wonder if Touya will consider
chasing after Koharu when he knows of her love story with Natsuki but then, he
can still deny all that. ^^; Actually, if Koharu realize it, he doesn’t have to
confess or anything but I wonder what she will do now since things might be
awkward with Touya from here on. This will probably make Natsuki jealous since
he might think something is up between them. That is aside from the possibility
of giving Touya a bad experience in love. Well, hopefully, what happens next is
something unpredictable compared to the previous chapters. Scans by 夜莺工作室
Quote of the day:
A good intention is like the seed of a tree whose fruit we
do not know. ~ Lloyd Strom