“It felt like all the cute things in the world were reserved only for girls.
I think that there’s something unusual about everybody, more or less.
It’s just that mine is a little more weird.”

“I’m first-year Saki Aoi!
So, um… There’s something I wanted to talk to you about…
Makoto Hanaoka-senpai!
I like you! Please go out with me!”

The senpai she gathered up her courage to confess to—

“I’m not the girl you think I am.”
“You’re special to me!”

had a certain secret—

“I’m the one who knows him best.
We’re best friends,
so I’ve gotta protect him, right?”

“I’m…actually…a boy.”
“A boy, huh?”