
"for me, i guess [spring] would be golden."
"golden? why?"
"it's a secret."
maybe there are tears in my eyes rn
so anyways, i was on pins and needles waiting for the next chapter of this and i am SO GLAD that someone did us the great service of translating it.
this was such a cute read. really the only can of worms someone could open up here is that gaku took advantage of an inexperienced himari at first, but other than that it was virtually unproblematic. gaku was gentle and sweet, and his assertiveness didn't feel predatory. himari was cute (he looks absolutely lovely when he's blushing!!!) and dorky. his bluntness was really funny sometimes. also loved the size difference between them! love me couples with big height differences!!

it seems that "blue spring" is an actual saying in japan which means something along the lines of "the best time of one's life", apparently sometimes connected to youth and adolescence. gaku and himari talking about it was obviously referring to their newfound love, and gaku's "for me spring would be golden" was referring to himari, whose hair is blonde (golden)

the things i read just to get 5 pages worth of well drawn nipple play oh lord
lbr there's no way around the fact that the guy is a disgusting piece of shit with no redeeming qualities because he molested a random kid on the train even before that kid started seeking out the physical contact on his own. as long as he keeps it consensual from here on, I'll let him live

what really bothered me this chapter was shii saying "if you act so horrified, it will hurt my feelings" to guilt trip tamaki into kissing him while knowing full well that he is manipulating him ("if I don't use such strategies now, I'll never get to touch tamaki"). if he's thinking like this now, it's a little worrisome to imagine how far he'll take it with this justification. he's putting his own desires above tamaki's obvious discomfort --- though I guess we can attribute that to shii still being unaware of tamaki's trauma and that his own idea of "physical closeness" has an entirely different impact on tamaki.
the mother is fucked up and that dude is fucked up. our boy is literally passing from one shitty situation to another omfg. he needs a healthier environment to grow up in and explore his sexuality