The Person I Love

"The Person I Love" (好きな人) is a short story from Melon Books' store privilege for volume 6 of You-Zitsu light novel series, together with another short story.

Summary
While Airi Sakura was heading to the Bunanoki shopping center alongside Kiyotaka Ayanokōji, she felt her heart beating relatively fast as she was walking beside Kiyotaka. She explains how this pain was comforting, and admits to herself that she loves Kiyotaka. In addition, Airi seems joyful of how she is on a first name basis with Kiyotaka as she didn’t have the courage to do in the past.

Airi tried to start up a conversation with Kiyotaka by mentioning about the excitement she felt about going out with everybody which he agreed about. She then (accidentally) stated his first name aloud as she intended to only say it in her head, which confused Kiyotaka — realizing this, she quickly apologized.

After arriving to the cinema, she obtained the tickets, and happily noticed that she was beside Kiyotaka. Unfortunately for her, she heard a voice which was Maya Satō, who got very close with Kiyotaka by hugging his hand. Due to this, Airi decided to distance herself from the two as she felt envious.

Maya started a conversation with Kiyotaka asking the whereabouts about their visit to the cinema, and she also started to hug Kiyotaka’s arm; this enraged Airi, and numbed her surroundings as she couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

Afterwards, she asked about Kiyotaka's status with Maya, and fortunately for her, it was just a misunderstanding regarding their relationship. Airi was still confused about them linking arms, which she also found out that it truly didn’t mean anything, and Kiyotaka promised that it wouldn’t happen next time.

Even though she was relieved, she had some dark thoughts about Kiyotaka hating her because of her constantly asking him weird questions, which made her feel sad. Kiyotaka noticed this, and told her that there is nothing to worry about, and he’ll be there for her.