The bedroom door slid open. Akari Watanabe stood there, wearing her usual oversized pajama top, her hair tied up in a messy bun. She looked effortless. She looked beautiful. And she looked distant.
"I haven't been avoiding you. I’ve just been busy." fuufu ijou, koibito miman 80
It was Jirou. But he looked different. There was a tension in his shoulders that had vanished, replaced by a relaxed ease she hadn't seen before. The bedroom door slid open
The “other love interests” are more plot devices than people. Shiori is sweet but painfully passive; Minami is cool but barely present. You never really root for them to “win” because they lack the screen time and chemistry Jirō and Akari share. She looked beautiful
"That was the plan, wasn't it?" she said, her voice breezy but brittle. "From the very start. You get your princess, I get my prince. It’s the perfect happy ending."
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