My favorite chapter yet, so many great moments.

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Also the whole story deserves an Introspective .

From Hachimitsu Scans: "According to her Twitter account, this chapter was originally a single, 91-page chapter, but this was split in two for size concerns, with the next chapter coming next month."

Holy,91 pages chapter ? Author need to calm down.

^ It's because she had stomach problems and couldn't release a chapter in July.

I guess the Salamander symbolizes loneliness.

The salamander represents the lie, to keep up appearances. Lying to yourself.
It represents the heavy feeling you get, wanting to keep someone for yourself, knowing you stifle their social growth.

You feel like an asshole basically. But you're human and you can't shake off those feelings.
"If I'd talk to her, she'd understand. But why won't I talk about it?"

Teens gonna teens.
Emotions like love are out of the equation here unless the author injects them.

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@BeanBeanKingdom
Fair point, however, the monologue is still blamed. It's way too long, it feel like the author tries to buy sometime for something else. Even though I know that it is not what they want, maybe they just simply feel so high and decide to make a long chapter, but keep a long boring inner thought won't make the story great. So it's still blamed! Low quality work.

So it's still blamed! Low quality work.

I.e., you don’t care for it.

Duly noted.

@Star Light: Yeah, I get it, the monologue can feel like it drags, but I'm fine with it because there's always a point to it, in this case it's about Konatsu being in denial and thinking she has to bottle her feelings up while slowly realizing (and being made to realize by Kaede) that doing so makes her suffer. I think it's more of an issue of the chapter taking two months to release and only setting up a development in the next one (though it was originally meant to be a longer chapter). I'm sure that reading this part in the volume release all at once will feel just right and not too slow.

I said it before and I'll say it again, how are they not gay?

I said it before and I'll say it again, how are they not gay?

Because Author said "no homo"

I said it before and I'll say it again, how are they not gay?

Be prepared to be horribly disappointed by a pure friendship ending.

@BeanBeanKingdom
Fair point, however, the monologue is still blamed. It's way too long, it feel like the author tries to buy sometime for something else. Even though I know that it is not what they want, maybe they just simply feel so high and decide to make a long chapter, but keep a long boring inner thought won't make the story great. So it's still blamed! Low quality work.

Personally, I think that the long introspective monologues are exactly what make this story so good, but tastes differ.

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I'm loving the super gal pals aura this is giving off

I said it before and I'll say it again, how are they not gay?

Because Author said "no homo"

No because this series got trademark as tourism symbol so no homo.

@Star Light: Yeah, I get it, the monologue can feel like it drags, but I'm fine with it because there's always a point to it, in this case it's about Konatsu being in denial and thinking she has to bottle her feelings up while slowly realizing (and being made to realize by Kaede) that doing so makes her suffer. I think it's more of an issue of the chapter taking two months to release and only setting up a development in the next one (though it was originally meant to be a longer chapter). I'm sure that reading this part in the volume release all at once will feel just right and not too slow.

I think it is poor setting. But well, drama is its theme so I guess my complaint was personal. I guess this is not the kinda manga for me. Tell me when they got yuri and I will consider to get back (which is never, see I use past tense in conditional clause)

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No because this series got trademark as tourism symbol so no homo.

Dunno, if I knew this was the town where cute 2D lesbians got together, I'd just be more inclined to visit.

Konatsu, please don't hide your feelings. :(
Go tell Koyuki you're uber gay and wanna fuck her. >:v

Konatsu, please don't hide your feelings. :(
Go tell Koyuki you're uber gay and wanna fuck her. >:v

Wish author said yeah-homo instead huh.

Personally now, I won't mind if this ends 'platonically' guised in steamy three-way handholding among three gal-pals.

Personally now, I won't mind if this ends 'platonically' guised in steamy three-way handholding among three gal-pals.

...you monster. D:

Konatsu-chan can't contain her feelings anymore, I feeling a friendship confession is up next, fingers crossed

Konatsu, please don't hide your feelings. :(
Go tell Koyuki you're uber gay and wanna fuck her. >:v

Wish author said yeah-homo instead huh.

Personally now, I won't mind if this ends 'platonically' guised in steamy three-way handholding among three gal-pals.

geez, what a degenerate, let's not lewd them

So much drama if it's just for a friendship story would be disappointing... I find honami's attitude towards konatsu really not nice, to put it aside when it's not invasive at all and hide things from her...
A little too easy as a shy reaction. And she waits until the last week to tell him she's leaving to study?
Now if the next chapter is just a kind of reunion of the kind we become great friends again, then the scenario will also be flawed and the story will become eternal for nothing.

Now if the next chapter is just a kind of reunion of the kind we become great friends again, then the scenario will also be flawed and the story will become eternal for nothing.

Fortunately there's no way it will be, after all over the last two or three chapters we've been shown Kaede working up a resolve to see things through personally for those useless les...subtext friends.

Now if the next chapter is just a kind of reunion of the kind we become great friends again, then the scenario will also be flawed and the story will become eternal for nothing.

Fortunately there's no way it will be, after all over the last two or three chapters we've been shown Kaede working up a resolve to see things through personally for those useless les...subtext friends.

Yeah, it's still a story to push the kaede character who is exceptionally a Samaritan woman ^^
In fact, what is the pseudo problem between the two, everything is fine and all of a sudden it makes friends who no longer understand each other and don't talk to each other, it makes it a little big anyway.

Classic 'build your friend up, your friend finds new friends and you feel lonely' story. I think Konatsu is afraid Honami is friend-cheating on her. She knows I guess that Honami will eventually leave for college. I guess Konatsu wants to tell her that she'll:

A. Miss her?
B. Wants to stay longterm friends with her?

Konatsu is being unreasonably awkward. Maybe she thinks she has nothing more to give now that Honami has more friend juice these days (strength to be social, positive and friendly; outgoing). Konatsu awkwardly believes she shouldn't dabble with Honami anymore, after all she has Kaede and stuff now.

Yet we see that Honami is already losing her grip a little and isn't totally confident.

Since yuri is so shameful, I guess it will be a friends confession after all. "I want to be friends with you!" "Oh God, seriously!"

They sure don't act like friends right now, who knew the road to friendship was so rocky? Or they're both awkward as hell.