Doh! Unexpected baking instead

Now that’s what I call drama, Hana ni Arashi-style.

Also, Chidori’s parents might as well be on the moon—Grandma’s out, so the decks are cleared for cuddling.

My headcanon: Mai and the manager are now an item.

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Well, that was kinda out of leftfield but at least it wasn’t stupid drama. An actual realistic awkward situation.

Drama averted ! Not gonna lie, I got my hopes up a bit when it looked for a second like Chidori would be home alone with Nanoha :P Oh well !

I know they have an awkward history with this girl, but I'm glad they have someone they can be open around.

Oh my god
Finally
Someone they can be open with and rest easy with
Hopefully the rest of their friends can follow behind, but for now it's an amazing and wonderful start
Baby steps, one at a time

^Yeah

I hope they get to tell their friends soon. It's not like they're homophobic since they reacted positively to that other sapphic couple in the earlier chapters. I guess main couple is just shyyy

I hope they get to tell their friends soon. It's not like they're homophobic since they reacted positively to that other sapphic couple in the earlier chapters. I guess main couple is just shyyy

Yeah, they're shy, especially Chidori. But this chapter gives a little insight into the specifics of their shyness. Assuming they came out to their friends, they'd still need to keep things from the the general public (remember how Abe-chan--half of that other sapphic couple--first referred to her relationship as "rumors" on the Tokyo trip? i.e., their friends may know but the whole school doesn't. And then there are the parents).

More importantly, if they were out to their friends, they'd need to calibrate how lovey-dovey they could be even in front of them. And, of course, they'd risk the old "Relationships are breaking up that old gang of mine" (see note) thing, too, where the friends could feel estranged because of the two of them being an overt couple.

• here's George Harrison doing.a version of the 1929 song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqT3f-rvXBk

I'm certainly not saying they're right to keep their relationship hidden, just that coming out creates certain complications even if their friends are totally OK with it.

Did not expect this turn, but it's nice nonetheless. Hopefully Mai will be able to move forward as well.

And Nanoha is just being silly there... :D

My headcanon: Mai and the manager are now an item.

Or will be after this.

I actually expected her to ask for advice on confessing at first when I saw her there.

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I actually expected her to ask for advice on confessing at first when I saw her there.

From my reading, I suspect it's much more likely that Manager-chan will do the confessing. Mai seemed pretty oblivious to Manager-chan's unrequited feelings when Mai rejoined the basketball club.

I actually expected her to ask for advice on confessing at first when I saw her there.

From my reading, I suspect it's much more likely that Manager-chan will do the confessing. Mai seemed pretty oblivious to Manager-chan's unrequited feelings when Mai rejoined the basketball club.

True enough, although on the other hand, we don't really know how things have progressed since the last time we saw them.

The only line is the next one to cross!

Oh my god
Finally
Someone they can be open with and rest easy with
Hopefully the rest of their friends can follow behind, but for now it's an amazing and wonderful start
Baby steps, one at a time

Yeah it definitely feels like the moment they will tell their friends is getting closer. Chidori already misspoke around their friends before, and now that they are able to act lovey-dovey around someone else, I suspect it will happen more often.
Then again, since it's been dragged out for this long, and the end of their school time together is drawing nearer, I suspect they will wait to tell their friends around graduation, and then the manga will most likely end (though I hope it might continue after that like with Asagao to Kase-san).

I can't believe I missed this. That brief moment where Nanoha got unleashed. Mai being there is the only thing stopping her.

I can't believe I missed this. That brief moment where Nanoha got unleashed. Mai being there is the only thing stopping her.

Quite true, but don’t sell our “Still Waters Run Deep” Chidori short, either—she walked around the cultural festival as a boiling pot of sapphic lust after crouching up against Nanoha for hours while they hid in the haunted house.

I don’t expect this series to ever go full-on NSFW—but a person can dream, can’t they?

she walked around the cultural festival as a boiling pot of sapphic lust

Bless you for this visual, I can't stop laughing

she walked around the cultural festival as a boiling pot of sapphic lust

Bless you for this visual, I can't stop laughing

Same

I can't believe I missed this. That brief moment where Nanoha got unleashed. Mai being there is the only thing stopping her.

Quite true, but don’t sell our “Still Waters Run Deep” Chidori short, either—she walked around the cultural festival as a boiling pot of sapphic lust after crouching up against Nanoha for hours while they hid in the haunted house.

I don’t expect this series to ever go full-on NSFW—but a person can dream, can’t they?

LOL I thought that about YagaKimi at first too but then they banged LOL

YAY! I really wanted Mai to reappear and now she has. Is it weird that I think Mai to be one of the best side characters? I really liked her arc as well.

Called it a week ago:

My headcanon: Mai and the manager are now an item.

It didn't exactly take the powers of Nostradamus, and they aren't actually an item yet, but where mutual doki-dokis are, there yuri is.

Gays and sports teams go together like chedder and broccoli

And Chidori was an exemplary advice-giver: she didn’t give her opinion about what Mai was feeling or what she should do; she asked about how Mai felt and gave her a way to think about things.

Good sempai.

So cute. Can we follow these two for the rest of their lives, Room for Two style?

This makes me feel so warm and fluffy that I have to take my sweater off lest I get heatstroke
I am rooting for her so hard, hopefully her dreams and aspirations are realized