Neat. Good that the misunderstanding didn't last for more than one chapter. The whole buildup leading up to the beach and the beach confession kinda really fizzled out though.
I can see that this way to approach things does make it so that we kind of go through the same notes that Tsukushi goes through. So much pressure is put onto The confession and getting it right. Feeling feverish and hazy was easily brushed aside. And then, at The moment, everything goes wrong. Afterwards, we feel distress that Tsukushi feels when Hinoka cries. We think back on how things went so poorly along with thoughts about "Tsukushi should have done this" and "Tsukushi wouldn't have made Hinoka cry if she did that."
Idk thinking real hard about reasons why Hijiki went with the failed beach confession beyond "stretching the story out." It is a shame that the emotional high of getting your feelings through to Hinoka at the beach would have been much much higher than the emotional crash and rise afterwards when the feelings do go through. Maybe this relates to how things don't always go as planned?
But hey I am glad they are together now. It would be hillarious if we see Hinoka reacting to Tsukushi's reasoning behind being fully emotionally bracing herself for a rejection. Literally "it came to me in a dream"
