Volume 5 Bonus Report

Plot
Reminded by breaking a cup when having tea, Honoka, Nobunaga and Akira reminisce on something that happened in their early school years. In crafts class, Honoka’s cup was found broken and glued back together. No-one owned up to breaking it, and some of the boys start blaming Akira. Akira remains silent, but Honoka and Nobunaga stand up for him, and Honoka gets into a fight with one of the boys as he refuses to apologize to Akira for the false accusation. Flabbergasted, all Akira is able to do is watch.

The real culprits confessed after the teacher interfered. It had been Akira who fixed Honoka’s cup, but according to the way he saw it it would have been better if he had been the one who broke it, as then Honoka would not have gotten into the fight.

On their way home Honoka and Nobunaga ask Akira why he did not defend himself, and he tells them that no-one ever believes him even if he does. They promise to make the others listen and to protect him, but unwilling to put his friends in that kind of place, Akira rather decides to accept everyone else thinking he is the bad guy.