Look it's not like I'm trying to be the bad guy here, but she just told this girl, who is supposedly her best friend and who she has been living with for a year, that she had a girlfriend this whole time and she never said a word because she was scared she would treat her like a creep. That's just mean.
I repeat: when was it ever implied that Fukami was Kaze's best friend?
It wasn't really implied, Kase says so herself. And people have been commenting on it, because I don't think any one of the readers saw them as best friends? So it's a bit ironic to have Kase randomly say that, while not having shown them act as friends at all.
Yep, basically that. Literally no one would have called them best friends... except Kase apparently, for some reason. Maybe it's a translation thing? Doesn't change much, anyway.
Does Fukami even know who Yamada is?
Probably not lol. But poor Yamada is always treated like the story's punching bag. She does have very squishy-looking cheeks...
I mean, that's a pretty reasonable (and common) fear for someone in the LGBT community, that someone that thought they could trust would do a complete 180° on them and become actively hostile. Forget friends, it's even happened in family. I have cousins who are LGBT, and I have relatives who suddenly shifted to looking down on them when they stopped hiding themselves.
Kase has done a LOT of stupid things this arc - a LOT- but for Kase to be worried about losing someone she considers a friend over something that still continues to be divisive for the intolerant? Not just losing them, but risking them possibly becoming actively hostile? Nah, THAT is reasonable. And real.
It's 100% valid if you think that. For me it's odd that she wouldn't tell someone she calls her best friend, and who she's lived with for a year, such an important part of her life, especially with so much time to suss out how she feels about queer ppl; but then again I've been openly trans in a pretty socially progressive country for a year or so now, my perspective might be different.
At the same time, I think it was too real for a blink-and-you-miss-it comment. I understand that this series is light-hearted, but that was some mighty bomb that Kase dropped with a cheery smile on her face.