Hijita’s plan on this school trip was to try to hang out with you and get you alone in time for the Higashiyama Hanatoro in the late evening. However, you seemed to have other plans.

Even time he was close to getting you two into a particularly romantic atmosphere, it would shatter by the interruption of another one of Seimei-sensei’s antics, or any of the antics that his peers seem to get in often.

Essentially, the whole trip he was getting cock-blocked. This wasn’t fair! He’d had relatively no progress with you since middle school because he had always been too nervous about making a move, but now that he was actually trying, it was like the universe was punishing him for being brave.

Time was running out. The lantern lighting had already started, and he really wanted to get you alone so the two of you could walk down the illuminated streets and get mistaken as a couple—where you’d laugh it off and blush in the cute way you did when you got embarrassed—but you were too busy trying to stop Seimei-sensei from crying after some kid insulted his cowlick.

Hijita realized he needed to act fast.