Well I'm still enjoying the series, the only thing that's difficult for me is that ominous sense of dread building up for them to be separated by the reality of the future. I'm still hoping that they'll work things out, and remain happily together into their adult lives.
From an “inside the story” POV, this is a pretty reasonable worry—people who are intensely close in high school can end up virtual strangers just a few years later.
But from a “what’s the author going to do with this story?” perspective, I’d place the odds of this story ending up in some coldly realistic place as being vanishingly small.
Every obstacle they’ve faced in this series so far has been resolved in a way as to make their relationship stronger—there’s no reason to believe the ending will be any different.
EDIT: And I’ll say again what I always say: every episode of this series is a master class in drawing body language and facial expressions (this one is the former rather than the latter):
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hana_ni_arashi_ch118#2
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