"I was the one who seduced him." "A blindfold's all you need." "It'll be just as if your beloved Takahiro were here in your arms..." "That was my high-handed naivete." "Your cool hands felt so good on my skin" "I love you so much..." "Ta..." "Takahiro..." "All that's left is my memory of his touch." "My love will never be returned." "I thought that my feelings would get through to him if we had sex." "Nice to meet you." "I'm Kusama Nowaki." "let go of me!" "What's up with you?" "Hey!" "Wacchan!" "Did you find the rocket?" "a newcomer?" "come on over!" "a little something for our new friend." "Cheers!" "I'm jusL.." "It's okay." "Wacchan!" "Come over here a second!" "This launch is going to be perfect!" "Coming!" "The feel of his hands just now... crazy?" "There's no way!" "So your name is Kamijou Hiroki-kun?" "then you're Hirotan!" "Hirotan...?" "so Wacchan {vt organized this little rocket-launching party for us." "We all got to know each other through Wacchan." "Here's my business card." "Dispose of it however you want." "mine too!" "too!" "Bet they're just a couple of old guys on the verge of getting laid off..." "Kusama Nowaki..." "What manner of man are you?" "!" "Wacchan's childhood was a little complicated." "He was abandoned as a newborn on the steps of an orphanage." "they named him "Nowaki" because there was a typhoon on the day he was found." "e started working straight out of middle schoo but he always makes sure to donate to the orphanage every month." "Says he'd like to take the place over some day." "He's a good kid." "A boy like that deserves to find happiness." "huh..." "I wouldn't mind a little of that myself." "Do you need something?" "I'm just worried." "You were crying so much before..." "It's none of your business!" "I heard you're a Teito student." "Would you be my tutor?" "Why me?" "so I need to take the high school proficiency exam." "I've got a senior thesis to write." "I'm too busy for that!" "then." "I'm not going to do it!" "Go ask someone else." "Hiro-san." "Huh?" "Let go already!" "Please!" "Quit pestering me!" "I really want to learn!" "Get lost!" "I'm getting really angry!" "Go right ahead." "What the hell is up with that guy..." "The key!" "I got jacked!" "This is the worst day of my life!" "and then some random kid takes my house key!" "Screw this!" "I'm going to sleep!" "Warm..." "Why do your hands feel different from usual...?" "What the hell?" "!" "What are you doing here?" "!" "Good morning." "What the hell?" "!" "What are you doing here?" "!" "I finished my paper route so 1 thought I'd stop by." "What the hell?" "!" "What are you doing here?" "!" "I finished my paper route so I thought I'd stop by." "Get out!" "Leave my key and get the hell out!" "I made breakfast." "if you'd like." "So remind me why you're going to such I lengths to get me to be your tutor?" "You don't know?" "Not a clue." "Why indeed... you moron" "But I can't bring myself to kick him out it feels just like..." "I need to get over this!" "he's never going to feel the same." "All that's left is my memory of his touch." "Areyou okay?" "Looks like you owe me one now." "kid!" "Geez..." "Fine!" "I'll do it!" "and you better prepare yourself for a Spartan education!" "you grateful?" "Yes!" "This guy is way too candid... you're so cute!" "Don't look down at me like that!" "anyway?" "!" "You're huge!" "186 centimeters." "He's here." "juggling six jobs but he always finds the time to study." "Are... they alike?" "not at all." "His hands are the only thing that's similar... welcome home." "Go wash your face while I check this." "Okay." "He got them all right!" "Damn it.." "Is your thesis coming along okay?" "though." "Why?" "I think I'm going to stay in school." "Are you being held back a year?" "You idiot!" "I'll have you know I'm at the top of the literature department!" "I'm saying I want to go to graduate school!" "wow!" "That's amazing!" "after all." "it's nothing really..." "I was just trying to explain." "um..." "Why not brag?" "You're an amazing person." "Being around Nowaki always makes everything weird." "That book... excuse me." "I kind of helped myself to it" "I don't mind." "don't you?" "Why do you say that?" "You have three copies of each of his books." "I hear he's also a student at Teito University." "Have you ever met him?" "Hiro-san?" "I have." "He's a childhood friend of mine." "The one I love." "the one I loved" "I see." "I see." "A childhood friend." "I took advantage of it" "Ta..." "Takahiro..." "At that moment I realized how deeply he regretted it he had somehow sullied Takahiro." "and that only hurt him all the more." "out of love." "for fear of destroying everything." "A love with no hope of requital..." "I understand your feelings painfully well... and... thank you for letting me use your shower." "you should go to bed..." "Akihiko..." "What are you doing?" "!" "Is "Akihiko" that childhood friend you were talking about?" "Eh?" "You said his name in your sleep." "N-None of your business!" "It seems you're never going to notice until I just come out and say it." "I..." "Yes!" "Coming!" "Akihiko?" "You're still alive?" "What the hell?" "and I could never get a hold of you at school." "I assumed you were dying in some alleyway." "excuse me for being alive!" "I don't have time to play around with the great lord novelist." "I haven't even settled my feelings yet." "Don't make a joke of it I was really worried about you." "Are you eating properly?" "Your face is so pale!" "You're so kind so kind I can't bear it" "Don't touch me!" "Hiroki?" "Don't call my name in that voice!" "Don't be kind when you don't actually feel a thing for me!" "but.." "I'll be taking Hiro-san." "You stupid bastard!" "What the hell was that about just now?" "!" "He totally misunderstood..." "I love you." "I asked you to be my tutor because..." "I fell in love with you the moment I saw you." "What are you so that I'd have more time." "I mean more time to study." "I just want every extra minute together with you that-1 can'get wasn't it?" "It had nothing to do with him..." "I won't ask what happened." "But I'd never make you cry like that" "You were crying when I fell in love at first sight... but I want to see you smiling!" "Can I replace Usami-san?" "G-Get out!" "and don't ever come back again!" "Hiro-san." "he really just up and left.." "Maybe I was a little too harsh?" "anyway?" "He goes and confesses when I'm still recovering from a broken heart and then he asks if he can be Akihiko's replacement-what the hell is that? Nowaki really might not come back here again." "anyway." "It was never any of my concern." "it's nothing I should worry about." "Excuse me." "I'd like to" "What the hell am I doing ?" "Why am I dressed up in this stupid disguise spying on Nowaki from a cafe window?" "For all my insistence that it doesn't matter I can't get him out of my mind...?" "oh no!" "That is absolutely impossible!" "There is no ivay!" "It just so happened that this cafe I entered was across from the flower shop Nowaki works at WhaJ Wha..." "What the hell?" "!" "Quit flirting with those high school girls!" "aren't you?" "!" "how dare you be enamored of women?" "!" ")" "Wait What am I doing?" "Hiro-san..." "What do you want?" "I wanted to see you." "it was a real wake-up call." "I blurted out how I felt without considering the time and place." "For that I'm sorry." "But giving you up is one thing I just can't do." "Wha-What the hell is your problem?" "!" "Everything you say is just crazy!" "Quit fucking around!" "didn't you?" "1 was incredibly happy." "I'm going to tell you again." "I love you." "You're way too direct." "Do you hate direct people?" "I'm just not used to it..." "Then allow me to get you used to it." "it's your turn to be loved by me." "and yet now..." "I love you." "Hiro-san." "It's all your fault." "Your hands are just so warm..." "Hiro-san." "too." "He pisses me off." "Nowaki" means typhoon." "I had already been swept away." "I was already falling." "she's all done!" "that's really gorgeous!" "I put everything I've got into this one!" "no extra charge." "Is it a delivery?" "I can take it no need." "then?" "from the Bunkyo district." "too." "et cetera." "Et cetera...?" "Is he a friend of yours?" "but.." "that's all." "and you see him or her smile what a wonderful feeling it is... your flowers!" "I got your flowers!" "exam student!" "Don't let it get to your head." "You just managed to qualify yourself to take the real exam; you haven't passed it yet!" "It's only going to get tougher from here on..." "I'm so happy I think I might die." "Dumbass... if that someone is the one you love." "Nowaki disappeared." "Returning to Japan?" "New York"...?" "!"