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Why...

are you crying?

are you crying?

This picture book...

This picture book...

The ending...

The ending...

is so sad!

is so sad!

I really...

I really...

love this book a lot but...

love this book a lot but...

Oh?

Oh?

Hey...

Hey...

Let me have it for a second...

Let me have it for a second...

This way...

This way...

If we do this...

If we do this...

See? If we do this they'll both find bliss and have a happy ending right?

See? If we do this they'll both find bliss and have a happy ending right?

That's amazing! What a lovely story!

That's amazing! What a lovely story!

What's your name?

What's your name?

Me? I'm Ichijou Raku!

Me? I'm Ichijou Raku!

What about you?

What about you?

My name is...

My name is...

It's been ages since I've had that dream.

The dream about when she and I met...

What?!

If I'm going to dream about it at least let me see the whole thing!

Well it's no surprise that I had that dream.

Not after what happened the day before yesterday.

After all is said and done Onodera isn't the girl I made the promise to.

Not only that

but now she totally thinks that Kirisaki and I are going out.

Why is this happening to me?

What? What's going on?

Are you okay Young Master?

Anyway today I'm gonna talk to Onodera and clear up this misunderstanding.

Even if it was ten years ago and you were just kids...

You never know. Maybe it's still important to her.

I wonder if she's still holding onto the key after all these years.

Hey bean sprout across the street!

Good morning darling!

What happened to you? You look pretty wiped.

Well after our date the day before yesterday...

What happened afterwards?

Any comments about your first date?

When are you going on your next date?

They bombarded me with questions about it!

You too huh?

This really sucks you know?

I can't even relax in my own home now!

Right... The only place where we can let our guard down is at school I guess.

How long does this have to go on?

Did they really mean all three years? They gotta be kidding.

The biggest thorn in our sides is Four-Eyes

seeing as he's the only one who's not buying it at all.

Where is he today?

Beats me. I haven't seen him at all since this morning.

Anyway I'm warning you!

If by any chance you blow our cover at school I'm so gonna make you regret it!

You don't have to remind me.

Hey! Another thing! Don't forget about Onodera-san!

Make sure you have a word with her too!

If she blabs about the day before yesterday we're screwed!

Onodera's not the kind of person who'd tell others—

Hey Onodera!

Morning Ichijou-kun!

Cool. There's something I wanted to talk to you about.

Listen about the day before yesterday...

Whoa! Look it's Ichijou and Kirisaki-san!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Hey everybody! They're both here!

Yo!

We've been waiting for you!

Congrats!

Rumor has it that you two are going out now!

We wish you everlasting happiness together!

What's going on? What are you talking about?

Hey don't play dumb with me Raku.

I've already got the scoop on you!

Itano and Shirogasaki witnessed you two on a date in the city on Saturday!

We saw you all right!

Raku! I'm so bitter!

I never dreamed that you'd get a girlfriend before me!

Kirisaki-san!

Why on earth would you take this unappealing tool as your boyfriend?

Wh-What?!

Huh? What's this? You guys are dating now?

Good for you! Must be nice to be young.

Aren't you glad you're sitting next to each other?

No no no! You're jumping in too?!

Hold up a second you guys!

This is all a huge misunderstanding all right?

There are lots of good reasons—

Now that my misgivings about their relationship have been confirmed

I've got to find a way to trip up that little punk!

Wait for me please Mistress!

I swear I'll deliver you from his malevolent hands!

Claude you idiot!

Th-This sucks.

What do you mean by good reasons?

What are we misunderstanding?

Huh? Don't tell me you two aren't actually dating.

Right right! You guys just didn't get it!

Not at all! We're not just any couple.

We're a couple that's totally hot for each other!

What a bold statement!

Ah don't give us a heart attack like that!

You two are sizzling!

We... We're screwed.

O-Onodera listen. Come to think of it I never finished what I was saying.

How wonderful! You guys just click like you're made for each other!

Madly in

A

Madly in Love

A

Th-This sucks.

Why does this keep happening to us?

What's going to become of my high school life?

How long are you going to mope?

I'm the one who's ready to wallow in depression!

Thanks to Four-Eyes staking us out during both lunch and our break time

I never did get a chance to talk to Onodera.

All right I have things to do

so you go on home!

What are you do—

Shut up!

Don't tell me...

Onodera's going to think I'm taken all the way till graduation and I'll never get a chance to tell her!

Please no! Anything but that! I'll try talking to her again!

So I say but I never have the chance...

Oh!

Onodera

Are you about to leave Ichijou-kun?

Yeah I guess so. You too Onodera?

Yes my committee meeting just ended.

Crap! What a coincidence! What should I say now?

It did huh? Sounds like a lot of work.

But this is my chance! It's do or die!

If I don't do it now I may never get another chance to clear up this misunderstanding!

Onodera could you listen to what I have to say?

Look about Kirisaki and me...

No wait—what if...

Oh is that right? So you two aren't actually boyfriend and girlfriend. I understand the situation now.

But why are you only telling me?

C-Crap! How should I answer her?

"Because you're the one person that I didn't want getting the wrong idea?"

"Because I didn't want you to think about me that way?"

Hey that's the same as telling her I'm in love with her!

If I'm confessing either way I don't want it to be half-assed!

And besides I'm not mentally prepared for that yet!

Crap! What do I do?

W-Well the truth is I've been thinking that the gorilla and I aren't the best match.

I'm wondering myself how we ended up together.

Oh there you go again.

You shouldn't say things like that!

There goes my self-esteem!

It's obvious that Kirisaki-san saw something that she liked in you don't you think?

No no no that's impossible!

Besides there's nothing that great about me...

That's not true! There's plenty!

You think so?

For real? I'm so thrilled that Onodera would praise me!

Yes I do.

For example you know...

Kirisaki-san still has some trouble with Japanese

and you've been secretly taking notes for her. Things like that.

And like how you don't have it in you to ignore an abandoned animal

or how you spend hours helping elderly women you don't even know look for things.

When your friends forget their homework

you lie and say that you've forgotten yours too

or when your friends are about to get busted by a teacher

you stick with them so they don't have to get yelled at by themselves.

See? I told you there was plenty.

This is like a dream. Onodera noticed me doing all those things.

No those are just little things.

Kirisaki wouldn't fall for me over that.

You don't think so? But...

I think I can understand why Kirisaki-san fell in love with you Ichijou-kun.

Hey. My bad!

That's...

Episode 3: Two of a Kind

Episode 3: Two of a Kind

Episode 3: Two of a Kind

What's this key? Did Onodera drop it?

It doesn't seem to be a house key.

A key... A key? Don't tell me...

No way!

O-Onodera... Is that...

N-No it's not!

Th-This is... the key... to my house—

No! I mean—

I mistook it for my house key!

A-Actually... This is... It's the key to an old bookcase in my house.

And instead of my house key—

Oh my goodness I'm so embarrassed! What in the world am I doing?

S-S-S—

So anyway...

It's not what you think!

O-Ono—

Holy crap. I've known her since middle school

but I've never seen Onodera act like that before.

My heart was about to pop out of my chest!

She said herself that it was a different key so it's probably true.

Besides I learned that Onodera wasn't the girl I made the promise to not too long ago.

What am I doing getting my hopes up?

But was that really the key to a bookcase?

Oh crap! I forgot to explain to her what's going on between Kirisaki and me again.

Well whatever. I'll just give it another shot tomorrow.

I'm sure I'll get another chance.

Good morning darling!

I really missed you!

Morning honey!

Right back at you!

You two're so in love!

You two don't waste time huh?

This humiliation is too much to handle after all.

Well it's only been a day. Can't expect these guys to lose interest so soon.

I really have to hand it to those two.

In olden times Christianity was...

Catacombs are...

Okay then we'll invite you next time.

Y-Yeah I'll make it next time.

What's with all the fidgeting?

What the—

Y-You can just shut up!

How did it come to this?

At the very least we have to do something about Four Eyes.

Not gonna happen.

Once he's in that mode Claude won't listen to a word you say to him.

Oh right.

By the way I guess I should let you know.

Apparently Claude won't be sticking around after school today.

Some kind of deal's going down or something.

Really?

How long do I have to put up with this?

Hey here's an idea.

If you have a close friend who can keep a secret you could probably tell them.

Even if it's just one person

if there's someone who knows what you're going through

I'm sure that would take a load off your chest too.

Oh is that so?

In that case why don't you just go right ahead?

Huh? What's that supposed to mean?

Why don't you shut up? Don't talk to me!

I have things to do after school so you can just head home without me!

Hey wa—

What's gotten into her now?

You want my advice? It's about Kirisaki-san I bet.

Well yeah.

What did you do?

I didn't do anything!

Listen up. These creatures called girls are as delicate as candy!

So tell me...

How soft are those lips of hers?

We haven't done that yet!

So? What's your problem then?

Talk to me. I'm your best friend right?

I see.

It's not quite clear to me but you told her she should confide in a friend about her "secret."

Yeah something like that.

I have absolutely no clue which part made her lose it.

Well it could be that she was just in a bad mood but...

If you ask me it was her way of saying

"If I had any friends I could confide in then I would!"

Don't you think that's what it boils down to?

She doesn't have any friends?

Well I wouldn't know. You're her boyfriend aren't you?

But I've seen her talking with the other girls like she was having a blast.

Well so have I

but I've never seen Kirisaki acting as close with others as she does with you.

Onodera? She already went home.

She was just here a minute ago see.

Apparently there was no committee meeting today.

Is that right?

So Onodera's gone home huh? This was supposed to be my big chance!

Oh man what should I do now?

Kirisaki told me to go home so maybe I should...

But I've never seen Kirisaki acting as close with others as she does with you.

**** it! I can't help but worry about her when you feed me a line like that!

And then Kirisaki-san...

So I talked to her this morning again but...

I just can't shake the feeling that she's putting up a wall.

Like she's avoiding us.

It's hard enough trying to talk to the new girl who's both blonde and beautiful...

But she seems totally different when she's with Ichijou-kun.

Behind that pretty face she might actually hate us.

Come to think of it

ever since she transferred here

I've spent a whole lot of time with her

but I've been so preoccupied with being her fake boyfriend that

as far as her personal life was concerned

I never even bothered to notice what was going on.

Oh it's Moriya...

Gan? Gan... ka?

Iwa... Oh Iwashita!

Seriously this Chinese/Japanese pronunciation thing is a total mystery.

Iwashita-san is the girl with the ponytail.

She's on the tennis team. Active cheerful and talks to me a lot.

She might be interested if I talk about sports.

Suzu too. Suzuki-san is the brunette in the Gardening Club.

She's easygoing and sweet and likes café lattes.

Next time I'm going to start up a conversation for sure!

You scared me!

What...

Wh-What are you doing here?

How long have you been there?

Well sorry. I don't know I just...

D-Did you see anything? Did you hear me?

Yeah.

Wait wait! Time out!

Well? Go ahead and laugh!

Well what am I supposed to do?

There's no other way since I'm still not familiar with everybody yet.

I have no idea how to approach them or how to make friends.

I have no clue!

You know how Claude is don't you?

He's been watching over me since I was little

but as you've already seen he's overprotective.

Overprotective

Overprotective

Even when I was going to school it had to be under escort.

Whenever I was out he'd be skulking around packing a gun!

Before I knew it he started checking out who I was hanging with.

You have no idea how hard he made it for me to make friends!

The truth is I wanted to make friends like any normal girl and lead a peaceful life.

I thought that if I came to Japan

no one would know that I was the daughter of a gang boss and I would finally get a real shot at it.

But it's not working out for me after all.

Why...

Why am I telling this to you of all people?!

Seriously this is one messed-up story.

I guess if you're brought up in the same environment

you start to think like each other too huh?

I used to have a notebook like yours too.

What?

My dad's in the yakuza you know. So since I was a little kid

every time I changed schools people would say all kinds of things about me.

I made a notebook to help me overcome it.

Iwashita's a good kid you know?

If you bring up sports in front of her she gets totally fired up.

Suzuki's a good student so you should ask her if you don't get something.

I bet you'd get along really well with Moriya.

I'm pretty sure she's been dying to talk to you.

I know pretty much everything about our class from all my past experiences.

Because I've made so many notebooks.

So I'd be happy to help you out. You know with your notebook.

I may not like you but that doesn't mean I don't get how you feel.

Oh really? If you're gonna insist like that then I think I might as well let you help me.

You really have no clue how to act cute do you?

Well what do you expect?

Why should I act all cute as if I were your real girlfriend?

When all is said and done we're just actors!

You don't have to tell me!

C'mon show me your notes for a bit.

I don't want to. Why do I have to show you?

C'mon show me! I'll check them for you!

I don't want to—Hey!

Actors?

Why is my entry nothing but insults?

Shut up! Don't read a young girl's notes without permission!

C'mon it wouldn't kill you to say something good about me!

Actors...

What are they talking about?

Onodera-san is this type of person

Onodera-san is this type of person

Why're they suddenly excited?

tweet tweet

roar

crooaaak

hoot

grrrr

Oh... Onodera must be on her way.

pip pip

meeeeooooww

peep

slitherrr

squee squee

meow

woof

grumble

*trumpet*

caw

ribbit

*flap flap*

What? Onodera-san?

This happens every time right before she shows up.

Hello Ichijou-kun and Kirisaki-san!

I dropped by to give you a hand!

Long time no see guys!

So they're letting you out today?

Your feelings for them really aren't mutual huh?

No. But that's okay. Only because it's Onodera.