Nanoha pls... I had my hopes too high up. Wasn't expecting the "boyfriend" strat from here but ugh still want to be secretive about it I guess...
Well, she can't just reveal that she is dating Chidori by herself. She might have figured that it is best to be on the same page with her girlfriend on the openness of their relationship.
Exactly. As soon as I saw that Chidori was asleep, it was clear that Nanoha wasn’t going to unilaterally spill the beans.
Without revealing it's Chidori, she could have say it's a girlfriend. Not like the one she talking to would be shocked if she said she had a girlfriend, hell she could have relate more. Especially for the question of the mood.
Sure, the writer could have set up a reveal any number of ways, but the point is that by having Chidori be asleep, they couldn’t do it together, and that’s the only way Nanoha would do it in this situation.
Besides, “I have a girlfriend, but it’s definitely not this girl with whom I’m always stuck together like a set of Siamese twins” probably isn’t going to fly.
I mean, it's already a miracle that their friends haven't caught up yet to that and come on, we're 92 chapters in, we can have more than 1 or 2 side characters knowning about it. Here, i can already forsee Abe asking Chidori if she know about Nanoha's BF and drama ensue.