I predict that Mitsuki and Jerkface will be doing committee work alone since Aya won’t be helping out anymore. Jerkface will ask why doesn’t she just tell Aya who she really is and we get a trauma backstory on Mitsuki’s insecurity of why she doesn’t feel like she can stand next to/confront Aya.
Bonus prediction: Mitsuki’s insecurities maybe come from the “childhood friend” we have yet to see, but that’s just my stab in the dark shrug
I kinda hope not and that she is just socially insecure and really introverted. Every time we get a situation like this, it always ends up with a dramatic backstory and childhood trauma involved - for once, I wish it was just a person's natural inclinations to be the cause instead of some freudian excuse.
I feel that. I guess I am in the opposition because I always find it interesting to see how characters will work through their issues/trauma and seeing them come out a better person because of it. That's just me wanting Mitsuki's internal issues to boil over and we get some more backstory on why she is the way she is.
But, re-reading the story again it seems that Mitsuki is socially insecure because the big thing is that she "doesn't want to stand out/have attention" on her. Mitsuki probably finds it socially draining, but when she was sick and alone in chapter 11. Her loneliness hits her hard all of a sudden because no one was there to take care of her. She doesn't have ANY close friends and the only relative that seems to truly care for her is her uncle.
Anyways, I get excited at the thought of Mitsuki and Aya (hopefully) working and talking through this awkward and frustrating stage they are in right now. Because they will pull out the best/true parts of themselves by being together, whether that be platonically or romantically.