I don’t know how to express this well, but seeing especially these two girls out of the BakaTrio together,
it feels like their liveliness, eagerness, loudness, absent-mindedness (Honoka), forced behavior (Nico),
gets negated and turns into an odd seriousness that prevails Nozomi and Eli or Kotori and Umi pairings.
It happens in a latent, subtle way to the point that it makes me feel a beautiful melancholy...