Volume 10 Bonus Report

Plot
Arata is on his way to attend to some of the committee representatives’ post-festival duties together with Honoka, Chizuru and Akira. He feels apprehensive about Akira's presence, and apologizes to Akira for Chizuru asking him earlier if he and Honoka were going out. Akira turns the issue around by flat out asking if Arata is in love with Chizuru since they are spending so much time together. Arata is flustered by his directness and tries to cover it up, but Akira keeps up the questions about whether Arata is really satisfied with just looking after her. Arata is spared from responding by them reaching their destination, but he is nonetheless left terrified by Akira’s perceptiveness.

Later, Akira and Nobunaga are walking home from school together. Akira asks if there was a meeting for the infirmary staff, as Nobunaga is in a good mood and seeing Sumire would explain that. Nobunaga is shocked by Akira’s question, and gets embarrassed when Akira lists all the signs of Nobunaga’s infatuation with his sister he has noticed since primary school. Nobunaga asks Akira not to tell her or Honoka anything since he wants to appear a little more grown-up before he can reveal his feelings to her. Aware of Honoka also having hidden feelings for Nobunaga, Akira promises, content to keep silently looking out for his friends.

Trivia

 * The original Japanese title of this chapter was derived from a saying "親の心子知らず" (Oya no kokoro ko shirazu), referring to how children cannot fully appreciate the extent their parents care and are protective about them. The chapter title replaces "child" with "friend", and modifies "parents' heart" to "parental heart".
 * The events in this chapter took place on a day after (Report 129) and before.