a girl confesses her love to Mako but due to various reasons at home he can't reciprocate her feelings and he turns her down the girl runs away in tears and Mako thanks his teacher Siri for monitoring the confession he had her on stand by just to make sure that the confession wasn't a joke or a prank SEI is concerned that Mako distrusts people this much and she advises him to open up a little more so he can make friends Mako retorts that he doesn't need friends and he abruptly leaves as long as he moves carefully
he believes that no problems will arise he'll never make the same mistake again back in elementary school Mako was the class clown which he leveraged to make his Crush shizuka laugh however one day while joking on the playground with her she accidentally tripped on a rock and fell MAA was accused of pushing her down on purpose despite asserting his innocence seeing that shizuku was bleeding he hurried off to get some Band-Aids in his bag but when he came back his classmates had already taken her away to the nurse as a result Mako became the class
Pariah and nasty rumors about him began to spread nobody believed that he ran away to get some bandages but he hoped that his family would take his side his family did not take his side upon receiving news that he heard a girl his mother immediately called shizuka's mother and forced Mako to apologize Mako had no friends and no family to call his allies feeling the hopelessness of the situation Mako decided not to talk at all during middle school he befriended a bookish girl named SED after he returned her phone to her a close relationship between
blossomed and for the first time in a long time Mako was happy unfortunately due to another misunderstanding he became known as the boy who attacked SED Mako ended up alone again after nobody believed his side of the story one day a girl named Kisaragi asks makco to be her boyfriend despite his bad reputation regardless Mako agrees to start out his friends and he agrees to meet with her that weekend when the day of their supposed date arrived it was revealed to have all been a prank orchestrated by a few boys in the class with kisaragi's
unwilling compliance her confession was all part of a punishment game mako's heart which was barely alive after what happened with SED was now completely ruined Mako closed off his heart but bad things kept happening a few weeks later a girl named nanako befriended him out of the blue her friends warned her that he was bad news but nanako genuinely didn't seem to mind one day nanako invited him out to carade with some of her friends and since they weren't going to be alone he decided to trust her he shouldn't have trusted her once again Maka
was tricked he never should have eased up and he hates himself for falling for the same trick over and over again when Mako entered High School shiza his old Crush also happened to be in the same school as him just like many other of their female classmates Mako Having learned his lesson decided not to get involved with her regardless shizuka followed him home where she remarked on his gloominess and lack of friends she offered to be his friends stating that she never believed in any of the bad rumors about him a sense of uneasiness and
discomfort develops in mako's heart Mako asks her why she only started talking to him now and she explains that she was too nervous to talk to him in middle school and she was too afraid to say anything before when the Witch Hunt on his head began Mako doesn't care he wants her to stay away from him he is truly sorry and he even takes responsibility for what happened on the playground but it's too late now it's too late for her to say she trusts him after all these years Mako arrives home and is greeted by
his sister Haruka mako's gloominess and overall distrust of others have seeped into even his home life and harer remarks that he used to be happier before his mother tells him to get ready so they can go out and celebrate his first day as a family but Mako is tired of it he tells them to enjoy their dinner on her own his mother hopes that he can stop sulking already but his only reply is that he'll be more careful in the future Mako retreats to his room and notices that he has two new messages MAA writes
light novels in his free time and it serves as his only Hobby he receives a message from his editor explaining that a publishing company has expressed interest in publishing his work Mako finds it Troublesome and he pretends to never see their message the next day Mako struggles to stay awake after staying up all night thinking about the publishing company's email he glances at the girl next to the seat anry who is also eating alone just like him she also has a bad reputation a girl approaches Mako and asks to eat with him but after all
the previous incidents with nanako and the like he knows better than that he shoes her away and instead he asks anry if he can read the book she's reading and they exchange books nobody else tries to be friends with anry which is precisely why Mako can trust her the girl ignored runs off however Mako acknowledges that the girl is right this is the first time he's ever talked to someone of his own accord and he himself is confused as to why Mako accompanied by his sister heruka walks home from school bringing groceries but he is
still hung up on why he talked to anry on his own when he spots anry walking along the road smiling at something on her phone Hera also spots her and calls her a delinquent when she passes by she Squints and Maka wonders what that was all about when anry is finally out of earshot heruka calls her a weirdo for being a delinquent in this day and age Maka says something under his breath but she can't quite hear what he said she asks MAA why they suddenly drifted apart as siblings he always played with shiza instead
of her so she admittedly felt a little jealous Haruka could almost choke on her hypocrisy she admits that she was wrong about all the bad rumors about him and she just wants to go back to the way things used to be Maka won't fall for that one again and he gets a sick feeling in his stomach when she claims to be the only one who believed in him Mako asks herun not to call him older brother anymore what's done is done he excuses himself by saying the food is melting and he runs back home alone
when Mako returns to his writing he receives fan mail from someone named Pomo one of his readers Pomo has been sending him lots of fan messages lately and it is one of the few things that genuinely gives Mako happiness the next morning Mako leaves for school as usual and he spots chizuko waiting for him at the front gate he ignores her and walks right past her but she calls his attention and asks for a serious conversation the girl next to her Momo introduces herself as shizuka's friend and asserts that shizuka is being serious shizuka begs
Mako to give her another chance and she invites him out to a movie to cheer him up Momo fawns over shiza's efforts but she is much harsher toward Mako whom she thinks is just acting difficult based on how she treats him she believes in every bad rumor said about him Mako tired of this interaction and realizing that being polite won't get him anywhere prepares to be even harsher than before but before he can anry growls at them to get out of the way Momo startled reminds anry that they used to be friends anry is impressed
that she has the gall to say that Momo asks her to stop with her delinquent act so that the three of them can go back to how things used to be repeating the same phrase that Mako absolutely detests I believed in you Amry snaps but Mako holds her back and asks her to keep quiet Mako asks shizuka in Momo if either of them have ever been subjected to baseless slander or rumors or betrayed by someone they've trusted he wants one thing and one thing only to be left alone and he asks them to do just
that it's too late to undo what's been done shizuka runs away in tears and anry merely looks away to the side during class Mako observes anry prac practically beaming while reading a light novel on her phone she suddenly starts typing like a madman on her phone prompting Mako to check if Pomo has message him again a few moments later he receives a message from Pomo praising his new chapter he's glad that she enjoyed it though he holds off on replying to her until he writes another chapter anry suddenly looks at him funny she starts typing
on her phone again and Mako receives another text alert anry embarrassed fumbles and drops her phone on the ground when Mako sees the pomeran Ian sticker on the back of her phone it all clicks Mako goes over what he saw again but he finds it unlikely that Amry could ever be Pomo when she mentions his online pen name nanta his heart starts beating fast and he starts sweating profusely regardless he finds it too unlikely that it could be her it's all one big coincidence and he decides to delete her text as soon as class ends
the entire day passes without Mako ever deleting the message just holding his foam is making him nauseous but at the very least the final Home Room of the day is about to begin which means he'll be home in no time Mako glances at anry who has her usual guarded and closed off Aura Mako is interested in her but he decides that it's better not to get involved with her Siri announces that the school trip is coming up and she advises them to just form groups with their friends as soon as Home Room ends Mako gets
up to leave anry tries to talk to him but he leaves before she can say anything else frustrated she kicks her desk and tells him to stop trying to be friends with her she storms out in a huff prompting s to ask him if he's friends with anry s underwent a dramatic makeover upon entering high school but she's definitely the same girl from the library incident just like shizuka sedo tries to coax Mako out of his shell admitting that the time they spent in the library was fun and she even entertains the idea that he
was her first love Seda reminds him that haruga nanako and Kisaragi are all also attending the same school but Mako has committed to completely wiping them from his memory SATA wants to be friends with him again ignoring Mako when he says that there's no need s claims to have learned from romance games that as long as she learns from her mistakes she can write any wrongs she brings out her old glasses to try and charm Mako but Mako remains firm he won't let himself get sucked into the good old days anymore he is empty he
brings out his phone after receiving a notification leading s to believe that he plans to take a picture of her instead Mako reads a message from Piko stating that she's excited to read his next chapter MO ignor s and goes home reflecting on what Pomo or rather what Amry sent he concludes that there is no possibility for him to betray if anything he'd be the one betraying her if he didn't put out another chapter Mako doesn't know if he'll ever finish his story but what he can do is finished the next chapter when he arrives
home his mother invites him out on a shopping trip with Haruka but Mako claims to be meeting a friend Mako insists that they go on without him but his mother tired of his upid attitude tells him to let go of the past already this strikes a nerve she and haruko would go places together without him in the past and she even skipped his middle school graduation he can't change his troubled past and he knows that his mother hasn't changed at all people don't change that quickly Mak leaves anyway explaining that he has a friend to
meet Haruka asks him if he can stop meeting with his invisible friend and go out with her and their mother instead M sarcastically replies that his words aren't reliable he leaves and knowing that she and his mother will likely be going to the new mall that just opened he heads to an older shopping mall thankfully the food court is empty and he can be by himself in peace however by some sheer coincidence anry is at the food court too and he spends a few moments or maybe even minutes watching her various reactions while reading a
web novel finally she sets down her phone and starts typing Mako checks his phone and learns that andry's web novel is also getting published even though she stopped updating a year ago he receives a message from her once again praise his latest chapter mustering up the courage Maca buys two orange juices from a store and tries to talk to anry she initially mistakes him for another guy hitting on her but she is shocked to see that it was Mako all along while sitting together Amry tries to ask Mako if they can be friends but he
cuts her off before she can and says that he doesn't feel like being friends with her either annoyed andry claims that while she has bad rumors about her they're not nearly as bad as the one about him that's news to Mako it seems his reputation has gotten worse tired anry tells him not to bother her anymore there are a number of bad rumors about anry from dating old men to extorting classmates hitting classmates sneaking around at night and lulla gagging but that's all they are rumors Mao extends an olive branch by offering her orange juice
but she snatches it from his hand and tells him to leave her alone Mako grabs her arm before she can throw it but it causes the drink to spill on his clothes anry apologizes but is also quick to point out that he's also at fault for being rude to her his actions do seem frustratingly contradictory she asks him what he really wants and Mako gives it some thought he tells her that he doesn't want to be friends with her out of fear of being betrayed and likewise Amry tells him that she doesn't want to be
friends with him for the same reason he asks her why she suddenly stop writing and she suddenly gets flustered she asked him how he found out but it's not like it was that hard to piece it all together instead she chastises him for killing off so many characters in his stories but she'll let it slide because the main heroine is really cute Mako laughs and he asks her if he can read her stories for a minute like all aspiring authors Amry tells him not to read her early Works Mako reads her early works and is
amused that most of them are in the romance genre eventually despite the rocky beginning Mako and anry end up bonding over their shared interest in light novels when night falls andry's stomach grumbles she didn't have lunch Mako doesn't remember the last time he talked this much and to a girl no less Mako asks anry why she doesn't want to go home and she replies that she doesn't get along with her family very well however andry's older sister SEO arrives to pick her up SEO grabs anry and upon noticing Mako asks if the two are friends
the two deny being friends SEO introduces herself to Mako and she's happy that her little sister fin has a friend her age Mako introduces himself and SEO Compares him to tetsuro the main character of an anniee that anry likes anry gets up to leave clarifying that she and Mako aren't friends however when she mistakenly calls him by his online handle nanta SEO recognizes him as the author of the popular web novel Mike T's Grand e Adventure Amry pretends not to know what she's talking about but it's hard to keep it a secret any longer SEO
is revealed to be his editor and she asks him why he isn't responding to her text SEO tells anry that she should have said that she was acquainted with Mako but again she insists that they aren't friends SEO and anry go home first but seeo tells Mako that they should talk about the serialization another time thinks that this is destiny destiny of serializing whatever that is ma Muses that the two sisters couldn't be more different seo's Charming friendly attitude is the complete opposite of shizuka's rough aloof attitude Mako decides not to think about it for
now anry never would have thought that her own sister would be mako's editor Mako is silently relieved that it doesn't seem like anry is leveraging her sister's position to get her own work published as if reading his mind anry asserts that her work is being published by a different company from her sister anry has also read a lot of mako's work so she knows that it's good enough to be serialized she's embarrassed to say it but she means it SEO gives him a proverbial slap on the back and points out that he's already good friends
with anry Mako doesn't seem to think they're friends but he sees someone who makes his heart stop shizuka and sedo are right down the street Mako does a quick 180 and tries to walk away but the two girls chase after him all they want to do is apologize to him but in the immortal words of One Republic It's Too Late to Apologize Mako doesn't want to hear their apology saying sorry won't get rid of what they did in the past anry places a hand on his shoulder and tells him that they still have to talk
about a random topic Mako laughs he appreciates her help and he unconsciously links arms with her SEO wants to join in too but Mako moves his arm away SEO pouts and decides to hold andry's hand instead anry continues to insist that she and Mako aren't friends but that works out fine for him he doesn't think that they're friends either when shiza and SED see makos smiling they have a mental breakdown Mako thanks anry for just a moment he was able to bury the memories of his past Hara looks out the window sees her older brother
with two girls and realizes that he was telling the truth about having friends Mako and anry continue to exchange messages through the web novel application and as the days pass this is all they do this is the limit of their relationship one between a reader and a writer the day to form groups for the class trip arrives and everyone gets up from their seats to start forming groups mumm knows that he's bound to be left out and so will anry their classmates continue to bad with them regardless of what they're doing anry annoyed and fed
up with the situation stands up marches to the Blackboard swipes the chalk out of the class rep resented its hand and writes her name in Moos together they're a group now just the two of them and she's sure that everyone doesn't mind that the two class Paras are together Siri has no objections anry walks back to her seat and she tells Mako not to get the wrong idea they're not friends she just wants to go home as fast as possible MAA rolls his eyes it doesn't matter to him and yet without a word the two
have undoubtedly become closer they're not friends they're just nanta and Pomo Mako asks Amry why they have to be in the same group and she points out that it's better than them being forced into groups that hate them he concedes that she has a point she tells him that he should be more direct and straightforward but he prefer not to talk about school right now instead Amry asks him about the progress of his story's next chapter and the topic of his work being published he replies that all he has to do is proofread his work
before uploading it but on the topic of getting it published he still isn't sure while he's honored that management thinks his work is good enough for print in the end it's still just a hobby and due to his age he might cause trouble for his parents andry notices him being quiet and she tells him that there's no need to rush his meeting with SEO is still tomorrow despite seo's demeanor she's quite serious about her work so serious in fact that she's never had a boyfriend friend as a result mako's eyes widen Amry seems to like
her sister a great deal but she downplays it by saying that it's just because they're family MAA wonders if his father who hasn't been home in a long time would approve of him being a light novel author anry tells him to quit looking so gloomy and she poses a challenge a light novel battle the theme is their upcoming field trip and the word limit is 500 Words they'll write a short story and have SEO judge which is the better one andry finishes before Mako and she boasts that she's the faster writer that isn't exactly a
measure of how good a writer is as they exchange phones to read each other's work Mako begins crying anry smugly asks if it's because her work is just that good Mako smiles and says that it is the next morning moo skips breakfast as usual and heads to school he stops right at the door and he recalls his mother's words from the past and how they negatively impacted his childhood growing up he'll never forget them the axe forgets but the tree remembers he wonders how she react to his his story being published and he's pessimistic about
it he decides not to say anything for now since his meeting with SEO is still after school before he leaves Huka throws some Mochi at him and wishes him a safe trip at school Siri calls Mako and Amry to the staff office the two claim not to be friends but that's none of s's business she's not here to tell them to lay low or not make any trouble but to offer them a listening year she won't tell them to make as many friends as possible because the truth is sometimes all you need is just a
few even one friend is plenty what's important is that you can trust them Mako and anry have been hurt enough in the past to know that they can never trust anyone again someday somehow someone close to you will betray you Siri might know a thing or two about being betrayed and she hopes that they find someone that they don't mind being betrayed by once or twice neither of them don't get what she means but at the same time they both glance at each other sir's business is finished and she tells them that they can go
back to their classrooms on the way back to class anry wonders what that talk was all about Mako doesn't really get it either before they can continue a girl calls out to Mako the girl says that she's always wanted to talk to him but he doesn't recognize her and he quickly assumes that this is some kind of prank her hair has been cut short but she's karagi one of the girls who gave him a fake confession Mako knows that anry is waiting for him so he tries to cut their little reunion short not that he
wanted a reunion in the first place karagi asks him to hear her out explaining that she was intimidated into making that fake confession she was afraid that her friends would hate her if she didn't she claims that she really does like him and that she'd like to start over Mako isn't his usual self usually he try to cut the conversation short but right now he finds himself prying for answers from her he doesn't want to have a conversation like this in front of anry karagi invites him on a date this weekend but he gives her
the same answer as the others it's too late karagi cries and physically throws herself at him but anry steps in and says that Mako is currently busy planning the field trip with her karagi snaps at her not to get in the way of her and Mako but anry points out that she was the one who interrupted them first anry grabs mako's hand and drags him away Mako looks back at a fuming karagi and he ends up not seeing how red andry's ears are anry sheepishly says that he'll be late for his meeting with SEO if
he Dilly dallies any longer she notices him staring at his hand and she offers to hold his hand again he replies that it would make her her blush so he turns her down anry makes a fist and dares him to say that again during shizuka's Middle School graduation she tries to speak to Mako but he replies in an overly polite Manner and excuses himself shiza is confused but since she'll be attending the same high school as him she decides to just speak to him there again back in the present shizuka recounts her encounter with Mako
and anry with harot and sedo SATA gives credit where credit is due anry does look kind of hot and she's jealous of her smooth skin the three girls discuss what kind of girl anry is especially since she has her own share of bad rumors all Sedum knows is that people call her a delinquent but she notes that she's always alone in the classroom at the very least they know that she's friends with Mako harer remembers that karagi was also looking for Mako though she didn't take her seriously at first shisa shares a rumor that Kisaragi
was once good friends with Mako and they're not surprised harer remarks that karagi is quite popular with the boys despite her plain and quiet appearance Hara also recalls another girl named nanako but she deems her and karagi irrelevant to the conversation at hand Hara brags that this morning Maka was Kinder than usual since he accepted her Mochi shizuka and sedo have no idea what this girl is talking about and Haruka explains that Mako isn't as scary or guarded as before and she thinks that it might have something to do with Amry the mood suddenly becomes
stommer the three girls all acknowledge that they have feelings for Mako but they also know that they made a mistake in a flashback to the playground incident anry was too preoccupied with her wound to realize that Mako was being blamed as the bad guy she wanted to say that it was all an accident but due to the heated atmosphere she froze up she couldn't bring herself to tell everyone that they were making a mistake for a young child their early years form who they are when they grow up and being made a pariah like that
at such a young age had a profound effect on Mako she was scared that Mako would stay gloomy and detached well into middle school and she knew that she had a duty to clear his name however afraid that she'd be blamed for not saying anything from the very start she took the coward's way out and kept her mouth shut she thought that she could make amends in high school but life is never that easy HCA somly says that she knew it she heard about the incident at the schoolyard and she knew about how his classmates
reacted to her brother when she talked to her friends about it they claimed that Mako was a violent boy who only acted nice at home they even said that because Mako isn't the real son of H's mom they'll grow up all along alone when Hara came home that day she told her mom that Mako hit a girl speeding up mako's life being ruined at the time Mako spent a lot of time playing with shisuka but haruko wanted him to pay more attention to her she thought that if she troubled him a little bit and showered
him with kindness later it would work out that's textbook manipulation and it's very toxic predictably it didn't work and harer realized it too late now the relationship is strained and all Mako does is give her empty responses she truly regrets not being kinder to him sooner s shares what her mistake was the rumor that Mako attacked her she thought that he attacked her too but on the day of their middle school graduation an anonymous source told her that Maka was only trying to protect her from things falling off the shelves due to an earthquake SED
couldn't quite understand it at first she knew there was an earthquake that day but she was just surprised that Mako jumped on her at the time all she heard were people saying that he assaulted her she knew deep down that Mako would never do those things but then all all of a sudden people started paying attention to her by calling her cute she was a gloomy girl and she never had this many people pay attention to her before she was happy about it and because of that she didn't immediately ask Mako for his side of
the story because of that incident s became more popular and began dressing stylishly school life became so bright and fun that she forgot all about the incident Hara knows that she was so popular that few people even confessed to her but SATA rejected them all to her no one will ever be as good as Mako when someone told her the truth behind the library incident memories of her happy days at the library with him came flooding back and she realized that she had feelings for him during graduation she tried calling out to him but he
never looked back she too tried to make amends in high school but it was too little too late all three girls regret their actions and they brainstorm on a way to get moov to forgive them they know that no matter how they explain themselves now it will be meaningless they want to apologize but Mak doesn't want their apologies shiza suggests that they should take action so that Maka returns to his Kinder self and both girls are on board with this idea however she doesn't mean that they have to talk to him directly Hara concurs in
the first place they were the ones who hurt him so trying to talk to him directly would be counterintuitive their only course of action right now according to Hara is to support the girl who has managed to find a foothold in mako's heart anry though a bit hesitant at first they realized that this is the only way they can impact Mako from afar the three are in agreement they'll support the budding relationship between Mako and anry their first plan of action is to prevent Kisaragi and nanako from interfering on the upcoming field trip the three
girls laugh though the reason binding them all together isn't a good one they're glad that they came together and talked it out Mako reflects on the past few days events hura gave him aochi one warning haruga hates Mochi so Mako pretended that he liked it to save her from eating it he always used to think that he had to to protect Huka at all cost but nowadays he feels nothing he wonders why shizuka and SED suddenly started acting nice and considerate toward him after everything that happened in the past in the past he would have
jumped at a chance to be with them in a heartbeat but now he feels nothing he knows that they're not at fault he turned out the way he is now because of the harsh realities of life he can't trust anyone his heart is a hollow shell she's okay he's just Ken Mako meets with SEO and she calls his father on the phone to be his legal guardian and adviser Mako is surprised that his father agreed to show up in the first place earlier that morning Mako contacted his father and told him about how his online
web novel was being published his father a cautious but reasonable man agrees to be at the meeting to give him advice Mako is still a minor after all his father notices him speaking in an overly polite manner but acknowledges that he is partly at fault for that he tells Mako that there are people who acknowledge Him but in various forms he's one of them Mako should be proud he says and he congratulates him on his big break back in the present SEO asks Mako again for his permission to publish his story as a book and
spread it around the world across the table is anry who nervously awaits his answer if his book gets published too then she'll also have to try her best anry might not be his friend but she's certainly his rival Mao agrees to have his book published despite the trouble it may cause for his parents more than that he begs them to make it into a book anry leans against his back and congratulates him MO can't thank her enough he was able to find the strength to move on because of her after saying goodbye to anry and
SEO Mako returns home where his mother is waiting for him she asks him why he didn't tell her about his book before and he pretends that he didn't have enough time to tell her he assures her that he won't cause her any trouble and he won't ask for anything else he'll go to a good University and good company so he asks her to let his book be published his mother is confused but she wants to celebrate with him and Haruka by eating outside Mako tells her that won't be necessary she asks him why he didn't
consult her on this matter first and moo frankly tells her that due past experiences he judged that she'd only ruin the publishing negotiations he believes that she'd never understand his aspirations Mako confronts her about the playground incident and the other incidents in middle school and how she never trusted him in any of them because of that his heart has become scarred and he finds it difficult to trust others realizing that he said too much he apologizes and he promises to leave the house immediately if he causes trouble again in the future mako's stepmother breaks down
in tears moments later Hara bursts into the room saying that she doesn't want Mako to leave but if he really wants to she suggests that he lived with their grandparents instead their mother opposes such a thing but Hara tells her that Mako turned out the way he is because they didn't believe him in the past the best thing they can do to make amends is to give him space Haruka tells Mako that she'll handle their mother so she hopes that he can live in peace without anyone disturbing him mako's never seen her make a face
like that before and though he thought that he'd never feel anything from her words again he begins to doubt even himself for the first time in years Mako Pats her on the head and thanks her Huka cries and Promises to send him off with a smile the next morning Mako bumps into anry on the way to school who is curiously wearing a pair of glasses he shares that a lot of things happened last night so anry decides to go on ahead MAA wants to walk with her but when she brings up that he might get
involved in her bad rumors he replies that it's a little too late for that he just really feels like walking to school with her today he asks her about the glasses and she ignores him earlier that morning mako's Mom gave him a key to their deceased grandparents house and all of the New Year's money she saved up for him over the years she isn't quite ready to see him off yet but she promises to talk to his father one day so that they can have a proper conversation with him she reminds him to eat well
do his laundry clean his room and spend his money wisely but above all she tells him that he's always welcome to return here just like that Mako is living on his own with no preparation anry is a little jealous of him the house is already furnished but he's still needs to buy a few things before he can really start living independently anry offers to go shopping with him Mako never thought that things would turn out this way but as far as Amry is concerned this is a good thing she points out that his mother also
needs some time to come to terms with how things turned out suddenly Amry stops in her tracks she realizes that this means he won't come to the food court anymore Mako realizes it too he only went to the food court because he didn't want to go home instead Mako tells anry that she's free to come over to his place any time she wants though he'll still occasionally go to the food court he doesn't want to just stop talking with her there anry is a bit embarrassed at the prospect of going to a boy's house alone
especially since they aren't friends in the first place she asks him if she won't be a bother and he insists that she can come over at school Mako and anry can feel like people are staring at them and Mako remarks that it must be because of her glasses Amry replies that it must be because of the stupid smile on his face when SED arrives at the classroom and spots moo and Amry talking to each other she smiles suddenly a random girl named Mizuki walks up to Mako and starts talking to him she seems to think
that he and anry are a really good match and she's glad that she didn't confess anry is a silly goose and puts Mizuki in a Chokehold andry snaps at Mizuki and asks her why she thinks that she and Mako are a couple they aren't even friends or so they claim Mizuki Pats her head she isn't very threatening with glasses on but to answer her question Mizuki says she overheard Mao inviting anry over to his house s saves their skin by dragging Mizuki away but andry's mood to re has already been ruined instead she suggests that
they start planning what to buy for mako's house and he thinks of buying a cup but not for him for her for a man who's emotionally closed off he's one Smooth Operator Mako and anry visit the local shopping mall and buy everything they need but they don't pick up a new cup Amry doesn't see the need to since she's sure that his grandparents house is sure to have some spare table wear besides they're just there to write books and nothing else it's not like their friends anyway andry hurries him up so they can go home
but Mako stops by the restroom first while waiting anry opens her phone and starts reading the new chapter of mako's web novel you know what that means she's about to get hit on I stand corrected it's her old schoolmates who seem to have some history with her they sarcastically ask if she's waiting for a friend knowing full well that she'd never be able to have any friends unable to say anything anry just clutches a shopping bag and hopes that they stop they don't stop they bring up her cringe web novel and how Momo grabbed her
phone and shared it with the rest of her class the girls discuss calling Momo so that she can join in and anry finally finds the courage to stand up for herself Mako returns just in time like gandal at the Battle of Helm's Deep she leaves with him while her old friends are shocked that she's with such a handsome look looking boy one of them tries to muddy andry's name and they invite Mako to hang out with them instead but what really irritates Mako is when they bad with andry's light novel he snaps at them to
never go near anry again because she's his precious friend the girls are left speechless and Mako grabs andry's hand so they can go home Amry starts crying and he tells her that doing that is ruining her delinquent image though he did cry when someone threw a rock at him once Mao rummages through the shopping bags and gives her a monkey Mouse cup he noticed her eyes like up when she was looking at it earlier so he thought of buying it for her this is his token of appreciation for her help today at that moment Amry
finally understood the meaning of s's words to find someone you can completely trust she decides that he doesn't mind being betrayed by Mako at all at that moment did they become friends
