Do i smell drama approaching?! Wow could this be finally it?! Will Chidori say she going out with Nanoha?! Or will there be misunderstandings? Follow closely for the next release!..( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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“I’m trying to make you hate me for your own good” is always a dick move.

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Do i smell drama approaching?! Wow could this be finally it?! Will Chidori say she going out with Nanoha?! Or will there be misunderstandings? Follow closely for the next release!..( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

On the same Useless Lesbian Bat Channel!

Internalized homo-/biphobia from the looks of it, combined with some bad timing.

drama is coming

Also i don't know if it was a typo but when Igarashi come back in the end of chapter 36, she said "The cute kouhai WE left behind" but maybe she simply talk to another ex-student.

Since I didn't have both sides of the conversation, I sorta had to guess who she was talking to and interpolate. Japanese conversations work perfectly well without an explicit subject or any identifying pronouns, but you can't just leave those out in English. I couldn't tell you exactly why, but it felt like she was talking to another graduate, someone who knew who she was talking about, maybe one of her friends from the literature club, so I just went with that. Don't read too deeply into the exact wording.

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Gonna go with senpai being a manipulative bitch until we see otherwise.

I am leaning towards agreeing with that...
Seriously, the "I love you" and then "[between us was] nothing of course. We're both girls" is, no matter her reasoning a low-blow. Especially since she was the one being all touchy-flirty-hairfetish'y.

On the other hand, the framing of the "End" chapter gives me pause.
We see her face once, right after being confronted (possibly a sad/resigned expression; that diagonal background easily implicating her hitting a crossroad/juncture),
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hana_ni_arashi_ch44#3
and then no more. Her mouth as she says the lesbian's-words-of-doom is shown, but her eyes are not.
I mean, additionally to the fact it's Chidori's POV and she can't bring herself to look Igarashi in the eyes, the way the scene is presented feels important and intentional.
(And WHY is this the only panel her bangs are curved to the left? Really, I checked! The tip is pointing right every other time she's shown! A hidden meaning? Coindicence? Author's goof? 42? Am I crazy!? (--wait, don't answer the last one..) - and I just double-checked, it's not a mirror - her mole is still beneath her right eye.)

So, yeah... there's a good chance that while Chidori is stuck deep in the closet, Igarashi's like already half-way to Narnia >.>

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The first page turn in chapter 42 possibly woke up my neighbors.

I couldn't tell you exactly why, but it felt like she was talking to another graduate, someone who knew who she was talking about, maybe one of her friends from the literature club, so I just went with that.

This does still seem like the most reasonable interpretation.

Fucking player, I hate that girl.

Even though I’ve been joking, kinda, about Nanoha swooping in to save her darling—it’s just that Nanoha’s so cool—this sequence shows us that, shy as she is, Chidori’s no slouch when it comes to standing up for herself.

She got right in her senpai's face about the boyfriend, and, although she agonized a bit, in the end she was pretty proactive about the chocolates, too.

I just don’t see her taking much shit from senpai this time around.

Be. Gone. Thot.

I think the senpai really loved her but as many girls are afraid of other people's eyes and not having a possible future...It's not very brave but maybe she regrets it... but it's probably great late but it will allow us to make drama...

I'm honestly more curious about what Igarashi came for. Just to see how Chidori's doing, as she did seem to genuinely like the younger girl if nothing else? Try to clear the air between them, as those chocolates suggest certain regrets and the poor terms they parted ways on probably bothering her? Or is she actually insensitive (and/or desperate) enough to want to try and see if she still has a chance, since for whatever reason she apparently started having second thoughts about that rejection quite a while ago already and presumably has no idea Chidori's found someone new? (Mind you she'll probably clue in on what's up with Nanoha within minutes of her entering the room... and then fall hard for her given Nano's oft-demonstrated unsurpassed gay magnetism)

Guess we'll be learning that circa next chapter.

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I'm honestly more curious about what Igarashi came for. Just to see how Chidori's doing, as she did seem to genuinely like the younger girl if nothing else? Try to clear the air between them, as those chocolates suggest certain regrets and the poor terms they parted ways on probably bothering her? Or is she actually insensitive (and/or desperate) enough to want to try and see if she still has a chance, since for whatever reason she apparently started having second thoughts about that rejection quite a while ago already and presumably has no idea Chidori's found someone new? (Mind you she'll probably clue in on what's up with Nanoha within minutes of her entering the room... and then fall hard for her given Nano's oft-demonstrated unsurpassed gay magnetism)

Guess we'll be learning that circa next chapter.

That is a very good question. We’ve seen this “graduated-ex/almost-ex returns to the cultural festival” trope many times before—sometimes it’s just a former school star revisiting the scene of past glories, except in this case we know that she’s specifically coming to see Chidori.

The second thoughts indicated by the Valentine’s chocolate is the primary clue at this point.

Most positive spin: she’s come to terms with her true sexuality and wants to make it up to Chidori.

Highly (not “most”—she could be a demonically-possessed serial killer) negative spin: she’s a player who can’t stand even a cutie she didn’t really want rejecting her, so she’s back for another go.

I loathe her so much I almost want to see the writing turn her into a sympathetic character somehow. Failing that, however . . .

Just because someone treat you nice and kind, doesn't meant there are some kind of love or like over that...
that's why heart is really vulnerable and a nice play thing..

Just because someone treat you nice and kind, doesn't meant there are some kind of love or like over that...

Of course, in this case it was easy for Chidori to get the wrong idea about the person who was treating her nice and kind when that person said, “Chidori, I love you” while kissing a strand of her hair.

“I’m trying to make you hate me for your own good” is always a dick move.

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lmao you are such a genius

Just because someone treat you nice and kind, doesn't meant there are some kind of love or like over that...

Of course, in this case it was easy for Chidori to get the wrong idea about the person who was treating her nice and kind when that person said, “Chidori, I love you” while kissing a strand of her hair.

How could she possibly have misinterpreted such an obvious attempt to limit their relationship to friendship? Some people just read way too much into such everyday gestures.

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Ugh, straight girls.

F to pay respects

It's kinda Chidori's fault for misinterpreting it but it's also the ho's fault for being such a flirty ho.
So they're both at fault here.

It's kinda Chidori's fault for misinterpreting it but it's also the ho's fault for being such a flirty ho.
So they're both at fault here.

Saying "I love you" is "flirty"?

Taking it seriously is "misinterpreting"?

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hana_ni_arashi_ch43#7

...just out of curiousity, I'd like to know the japanese phrase she used...
(I mean, if it's 好きだよ... then I guess, intent may have more weight than expectation..?)
((that aside, her actions spoke volumes, and even if her abroad studies had her act more casual, she should have known how her behaviour would be perceived... curse you, hairfetishist!))

好きだと。千鳥。

Like many things in Japanese, the exact meaning of 好き is contextual. But the context here.... Well, just look those pages. It's definitely "I love you", there's no way it could mean anything else.

There's nothing to misinterpret. Igarashi either lied to her or changed her mind.