"The top floor of an upscale condo in one of the best areas of the city." "on top of that!" "It's been nearly a month since I started living as a mooch in this super-luxurious house." "Amazing!" "A perfect Japanese breakfast!" "It's almost time... and my landlord." "Morning!" "Morning..." "Finish your work?" "Yeah..." "Why does this guy wear a tie at home?" "It's a mystery." "Itadakimasu." "Ita lakimasu." "Naomori award-winning novelist who also writes boys' love novels the great Lord Usami Akihiko!" "he became my tutor." "so I just kind of stayed here." "Looks like he pulled another all-nighter yesterday." "he never breaks his promise to eat together with me." "dreams of having a "normal home." "aren't they?" "They're just so... yellow" "And he's weird!" "When's your school start today?" "8:30." "Then I'll take you." "it only takes fifteen minutes to walk." "I'll take you." "And..." "Usagi-san had been in love with my brother." "leave them out" "I'm going to do the laundry before I go to school." "I'll wrap up your lunch so all you have to do is heat it up..." "Um..." "What?" "I'm out of Misaki." "What the hell does that mean?" "i" "Usagi-san!" "Don't toy with people's bodies!" "but this right here seems to be enjoying the attention." "Hey!" "Where are you putting your hands?" "!" "Misaki." "were you doing it alone?" "Such bashful reactions..." "Shut up!" "You perverted old man!" "Stop...!" "ow." "watch it You messed up my manuscript." "Shut up!" "Your fault for stacking it here!" "You bastard!" "You didn't even ask my permission before you turned me into a pervert" "I was really on a roll this time." "It practically wrote itself." "This is a work of fiction." "is purely coincidental." "That's not the problem!" "can you?" "!" "Are you an idiot?" "The original's right here." "Give me that!" "Rewrite it!" "You're violating my rights!" "This is libel!" "Why do you always do things like this?" "!" "do you get it?" "!" "This is a crime!" "you ask?" "What a pointless question." "The answer is obvious." "Because I want to." "I'm going to freakin' KILL him!" "Morning..." "Give me a call when you're done." "I'll come pick you up." "thanks!" "Misaki." "What now?" "Have a good day." "you too." "uh-oh!" "I can't let myself lose to that smile!" "It's happening again." "Why does everyone avoid me?" "They won't even come near me!" "it's been like this since the second day of school." "Why?" "Why?" "!" "I don't recall ever doing anything to deserve this!" "What should I do..." "If I have to spend the next four years all alone..." "Damn it.." "I think I'm developing school-phobia..." "You okay?" "yeah." "You pick your seat yet?" "not yet" "Then come with me." "You don't mind sitting next to me?" "not at all!" "No way!" "This is the first time anyone's spoken to me!" "another mnemonic study aid that was used..." "You a freshman?" "What's your major?" "Economics." "my kouhai." "I'm Takahashi Misaki." "Eh?" "Your name isn't Usami?" "Huh?" "isn't he?" "but.." "I have this feeling that everyone's always staring at me from a distance" "I mean like they're avoiding me... right?" "Right.. get dropped off and picked up in said sportscar several times a week the driver is none other than Usami Akihiko." "You've got the girls all talking." "and uses him for rides to school?" "!" "but I'm afraid!" "that kind of thing." "So he's the-reason!" "that's all." "I'm 100% ordinary!" "Giving me rides in his car is fust a whim of his... that's what I thought." "You've got an ordinary kind of aura." "you always looked like you were down so I figured I'd try striking up a conversation." "I'm Sumi Keiichi." "Nice to meet you." "A friend!" "Eh?" "I think Sumi-senpai looks really cool!" "He'd actually been worried about me the whole time!" "the "Onsen Research Group"." "He's so mature! get yourself a job." "I know already!" "Senpai said he knows a good part-time job as a bartender." "The pay's 1500 yen after midnight!" "No." "Why?" "!" "do it during the morning or afternoon." "Working at night will interfere with your studies." "so make sure you don't fall behind." "my brain's just not as well-developed as a certain someone who graduated first from Teito University Law School!" "But even idiots like me get by somehow!" "anyway." "Don't joke around." "I'm talking about your attitude." "don't insult him when you haven't even met him!" "Think a little more about Takahiro who's paying your tuition!" "I'm coming!" "Hello?" "Niichan!" "I'm doing good." "Everything's fine." "You worry too much!" "got it I'll give him the phone." "It's Niichan." "Thanks." "Takahiro?" "It's been a while!" "How's Osaka?" "Give me a break!" "He always calls once every three days." "What the hell?" "!" "That really pisses me off!" "but he's all spoony over Niichan!" "Usagi-san had been in love with my brother." "he held on blindly to an unrequited love for ten years." "he never realized... and then he got married." "that may be why they're still friends." "But can you really get your heart broken and then give up so easily?" "I couldn't do it" "Then why does Usagi-san always touch me?" "He never acts like that with anyone else..." "Why am I the only one?" "I'm a replacement?" "Niichan's replacement.." "Oh?" "Usami-san was your brother's classmate?" "huh." "I guess." "seriously." "Eh?" "You can't really get into fights with Usami-san because of your brother." "either." "It's kind of an ambiguous relationship." "Does he ever compare you to your brother or anything?" "Well..." "Our parents died in a car accident when I was eight years old." "ever since then." "Always." "Always... but.." "Misaki..." "You talk about nothing but Usami-san." "What?" "I do?" "!" "I'm sorry!" "I didn't notice!" "It's all right Keep talking." "it sounds like you're really putting your all into what you say." "I like it!" "Akihiko!" "Don't treat my library as your own personal bookshelf! you have amassed yourself such a fanatically thorough collection that a mere public library pales in comparison!" "so make sure you're careful with it!" "I will be." "Hey!" "We're thinking of going up to Hakone for onsen research." "Do you want to..." "We're going home." "get your car out of here!" "You attract enough attention as it is!" "I've heard a lot about you from Misaki." "Nice to meet you." "so I'll be coming back a little late tonight." "so just heat it up..." "No." "We're going home." "Hey!" "Sumi!" "Takahashi!" "come with us!" "go tell them we're going out on a date so we can't make it" "Date?" "just go tell them." "O-Okay." "so I read one of your books for the first time." "How kind of you." "But I must apologize." "I'm rather stupid so I didn't really understand it." "Senpai!" "They said we better go on the next one." "Thanks." "we're going to head out.." "We're going home!" "but I told you I'm going with Senpai..." "We agreed in the beginning that we'd always eat together!" "Now get in the car!" "All you have to do is push a button on the microwave!" "too!" "Shut up and get in the car already!" "I've got my next assignment I don't want to waste any more time here." "Then go home by yourself!" "It's ten years too early for you to be going out drinking!" "We're going to eat." "I'm not drinking!" "you said you started drinking when you were thirteen!" "Stop quibbling!" "Takahiro would be very sad!" "there he goes talking about Niichan again..." "Then go home!" "why don't you go talk on the phone with Niichan instead?" "What?" "always talk on the phone for hours with him!" "Even though you're a guy!" "what the hell are you talking about." "Shut up!" "so I'll just say it!" "to tell you the truth" "You just annoy me!" "that's not-that's not what I meant." "What I'm trying to say is" "What are you doing?" "!" "Hello?" "Senpai?" "I'm really sorry about that!" "I'm coming right now..." "What are you doing?" "Yes?" "Ah!" "Takahiro!" "What do you think you're doing?" "!" "Shut up!" "I'm staying at Senpai's house tonight" "Shut up!" "don't touch me!" "Who the hell do you think you're talking to?" "Stop doing this!" "I..." "I'm not a substitute for my brother!" "Substitute?" "You were in love with him!" "There's no way you could give up so soon..." "I don't want to be compared." "didn't you?" "When I lost him for good." "saw right into my heart." "even though it had nothing to do with you." "he's the one." "So I can't keep a cool head when it comes to you." "I don't ever want to see the one I love taken from me before my eyes again." "could it be that you were... jealous of Senpai?" "And if I was?" "My heart feels like it's going to burst.." "I..." "I'm going to..." "Usagi-san... okay?" "I can't!" "I can't do any more... it's all right." "Misaki... don't let anyone else touch you." "All you need to do... is choose me..." "Morning!" "Morning..." "What are you making?" "Usami-sensei's special fluffy omelette deluxe!" "Fluffy?" "Did he... make this for me?" "I want to apologize for saying those cruel things yesterday." "I feel really bad about it" "It's okay." "after all." "For a different reason." "this guy... this is the Usami reside." "Senpai?" "I'm very sorry about yesterday!" "sure!" "Today is" "Is that how an adult is supposed to act?" "!" "I just don't want anyone to get in the way of our time together." "Takahashi Misaki resolved to himself I can't get caught up in this guy's pace any further!" "Little did he realize that he had already been swept away in it for quite a while." "this is really delicious!"