"Only four months until the Center exam." "I might be in trouble." "I'm back..." "Misaki." "get up already" "Nlichan...?" "Takahiro?" "Usami Akihiko." "Oh?" "He doesn't look a thing like you." "It was an absolute worst first impression." "a.k.a. Usagi-san." "An ordinary guy like me shouldn't be in a place like this with a potful of tonjiru." "The excellent gentleman residing here is a member of the family behind the Usami Group. and is currently a super-popular novelist the youngest recipient of the Naomori Award - the great Lord Usami Akihiko!" "starting today this lord will be my private tutor." "he's not even here?" "so I'm going in!" "the security code is" "Wow!" "Amazing!" "This is so unnecessarily spacious." "so please help yourself to the manuscript" "Oh; so he is here." "I've seen this at the bookstore!" "So he's the guy who wrote this?" "What's this book over here?" "Akikawa Yayoi?" "A different pen name?" "laughed suddenly." "Takahiro?" "Akihiko slowly pressed his own lips to Takahiro's slightly... parted ones." "Takahiro..." "HEY!" "you worthless two-bit hack!" "What the hell is going on in this book?" "!" "It's you and Niichan!" "What the hell are you thinking?" "!" "I demand an explanation... didn't you. and became the youngest recipient of the Naomori Award... self!" "aren't they?" "!" "I knew you were a pervert!" "with you clinging to Niichan like that" "And then you go and say you want to be paid for my lessons with Niichan's homemade tonjiru" "That's disgusting!" "Don't try to drag my brother into your messed up little world!" "aren't you?" "!" "Who's doing what against his will now?" "I mean..." "Did Takahiro say he was being taken advantage op he didn't say that.." "don't get near my brother!" "right?" "Wait..." "What?" "What the hell do you know?" "Wait a." "What the hell do you know about me and Takahiro?" "let go of me!" "Any man will do?" "You piss me off." "Hey!" "what do you think you're..." "Stop that!" "right?" "You said it yourself." "Tha-That's not what I meant.." "wait a minute!" "you pervert!" "Why don't you scream for help?" "Mr. D-Grade Idiot you asshole?" "!" "I can't.." "I can't let myself cry out I will not lose to him!" "This pervert's hands can't make me..." "This man can't.." "You're kind of cute." "That sure didn't take long." "I'm gonna kill this bastard!" "I:d always dreamed of living in a regulanmiddle-dass family. and it ended up like that this guy is Suzuki-san." "Your thoughts are already quite abnormal..." "I get it!" "after all." "right?" "Your father neglected his family your mother abandoned child-caring and devoted herself-to her hobbies." "Raised in a family that only pretended to get along." "you were on bad terms even with your brother and you grew up alone" "No one around you understood how you felt so you acted like a delinquent to rebel but actually you were just lonely." "But you had a red sportscar and a long-haired dog named Alexander!" "How did you know?" "I was right?" "' too." "and you ended up seeing them with your own eyes - trauma!" "Ever since then you lost all desire for women." "you had a kindftutor who wasllike an older brother to you." "and you discovered that you were gay!" "the newspapers would be all over it" "Seriously?" "!" "I can't see any way that we could get along." "so where are you aiming for?" "Mitsuhashi University." "You sure you're fully conscious?" "everything you say pisses me off!" "You don't know until you try!" "I know." "I already took a look at your answers to the trial exam." "This isn't the level of forgetting a formula or making careless errors." "You don't even understand the problem!" "Lower your standards." "Every school's got an economics department" "I'm set on Mitsuhashi!" "No way I'm going anywhere else!" "too!" "If I can't go there." "I'd rather just not go at all!" "Why did you bring upTakahiro?" "don't you?" "Our parents died in an accident 10 years ago." "Niichan's been the one who took care of me." "Even though he got accepted to Mitsuhashi University..." "I will raise Misaki myself." "I'll do my utmost to support him!" "It was because of me that he gave up on school and started working." "So if I'm going to go to an economics department anyway the school Niichan wanted to go to." "but" "I got it" "If that's how it is." "I'll definitely get you in." "You can't possibly fail with me as your teacher." "Okay?" "Ye-Yeah!" "but.." "I've taken my first step towards Mitsuhashi University!" "Howfdo you like that?" "!" "Cs." "Good job!" "it's a piece of cake!" "Don't get too carried away now." "Carried away with what?" "I'm just this good!" "but actually Usagi-sensei's way better at teaching than my teachers at school." "I started calling him Usagi-san too somewhere along the way... it kind of pisses me off." "Takahiro will be thrilled." "I'm sure." "I want to get you to pass and see him smile!" "Do you really love him that much?" "What's this all of a sudden?" "I'm asking if"you love him." "You have nothing to worry about It's completely one-sided." "That book you read is just my fantasy." "he's got a girlfriend already." "I know." "Being able to stay beside the one you love is one of the privileges of being a friend." "you should just shove his girlfriend out of the picture and make yourself his number one." "You really are young." "He means the most to me." "That's why I don't want him to hate me." "I've begun to realize..." "Usagi-san never does anything that Niichan wouldn't like." "as.if he were a jewel." "But Niichan sees him as nothing more than a good friend." "and blindly devoted" "What an idiot!" "It's only gonna hurt that way..." "Whoa!" "A-Awesome!" "Such a dramatic increase in so short a time!" "Maybe I really am a genius!" "I'm like a sleeping lion that's been awakened!" "Now I might really have a shot at Mitsuhashi!" "I've gotta go tell Usagi-san!" "I know it!" "Wait a second." "What did I just say?" "I've gotta go tell Usagi-san?" "I want to see him?" "What's up with this cheerful dash into the sunset?" "Niichan is who I should be telling first!" "it's not true!" "I..." "I do not like men!" "What are you doing?" "Sensei!" "Th-Thy doth verily appearest in most excellent spirits!" "Sounds like you need to study your ancient literature from scratch it's good we ran into each other." "Let's go home together." "I bought a cake." "Today's Takahiro's birthday!" "Looks like you'd forgotten." "Of-Of course I didn't forget!" "I got this today." "What are you doing?" "!" "Good job!" "Why is my heart pounding?" "Usagi-san's only praising me because Niichan will be happy..." "I'm home-Wah!" "Takahiro!" "Happy birthday!" "what a feast!" "Thank you!" "this is from me." "didnlt you?" "Eh?" "But that was really expensive!" "One luxury item per year won't kill you." "Usagi!" "you forgot to lock the door!" "sorry!" "that's right." "I have something very important to tell you." "Usagi." "let go already!" "This is Kajiwara Manami-san." "We've decided to get married." "Takahiro!" "And she's such a beautiful woman." "Thanks." "too." "I wanted you to be the first person I introduced her to!" "Misaki?" "some more" "Eh?" "The champagne's gone." "I'll go buy some more!" "They won't sell to a minor." "come with me!" "I'm sorry..." "Why are you apologizing?" "too cruel!" "You'd been in love with him the whole time!" "and yet.." "He wanted to introduce her to you first?" "!" "He was so insensitive..." "This is the first time I've ever wanted to punch him!" "What a dirty way of crying." "I'm crying because of you!" "I can't stop even if I want to!" "I see." "You stopped." "Sorry." "Just for a little while..." "U-Usagi-san... if you want to..." "Idiot" "Little brats like you shouldn't be patronizing their elders. except you." "As if I'd let anyone but you see me like this..." "I felt those warm drops on my shoulder and shapeless emotions came welling up inside me." "If only I could stay together with him forever." "If only I could become someone special to him." "and I stood there unable to take my hands away and let him go." "perfect!" "You got accepted on the waitlist; save your preening for when you deserve it." "that's all that matters!" "once you officially enroll no one will ever know you were waitlisted." "then even a waitlisted..." "Quit saying waitlist waitlist!" "Geez..." "It just so happened that on the day our apartment's contract was up" "Niichan was suddenly transferred to Osaka." "I'm temporarily going to be living as a sponger in Usami's house." "Huh?" "hey." "How the hell did you tie this?" "so watch closely." "Okay." "Your buttons are one off." "take it all off." "I'll do it myself!" "I just hadn't been paying attention if I don't hurry I'll be late to the entrance ceremony..." "Not to worry." "It's only five minutes to Mitsuhashi in my red sportscar." "Wa-Wait a second!" "Are you half-asleep again?" "Consider this an honor." "You don't understand yet exactly what it means to have Usami-sensei fall for you." "I don t even want to understand!" "my fate was sealed." "Ifthink I might have moved into a very dangerous place..." "Hey... why did you name your bear Suzuki-san?" "Kobayashi... meaning it's both popular and ordinary." "so I chose that name for him with great respect." "I see..." "I've accumulated this many." "Wow..." "Satou is the most common name."