Whenever an attractive girl approached him, he assumed they wanted to converse with him. However, to his dismay, their inquiries were always about Kei Tsukishima, his childhood best friend. Most of these girls only sought Tadashi's friendship to get closer to Kei. Tadashi was aware that no girl would find him appealing; he lacked Kei's attractiveness, with his freckles and insecurities stemming from childhood bullying.

Tadashi saw you approaching him and assumed you were just one of those girls. He couldn't believe you had the audacity to enter the gym just to ask him about Kei.

“If you’re here to ask about Tsukishima, I’m not interested,” he interjected as you were about to speak. Unaware of his past experiences, all you wanted to do was return his notebook, which he had accidentally left on his desk.