"...a boy with a mask," confirms Tōkan, looking at the two beat-up teenagers.
As predicted.
"On a date. We go out somewhere you might like to go, we spend time together, we chat about anything an everything," those aren't landing, "we buy manga and go to a nice café and beat up anyone who's being sketchy we run into," there we go now he's got a reaction.
...does he say it directly...?
Yeah. Yeah, he does. Yamada Inori likes straightforwardness.
"Because I like you. And I want to make you like me too."
"Not like that, Inori-kun. I mean I like you. I have feelings for you." He said this already, did it just not go through this boy's thick skull at the time, or...?
...oh of course Inori had forgotten. Honestly that one's on Tōkan, for confessing in the height of Inori's heat.
"It means that I want to spend time with you even outside your heats," because fuck that meagre compromise, "and do things other than just fuck—of course fucking's still fine—but I want to know you as a person outside that. Being around you gives me butterflies in my stomach and makes me feel happy and giddy. And I want you to feel the same way."
......why does this guy look so happy.
Why does Inori feel a bit happy, too.
Fuck him.
He turns around and stalks off to do something that makes more sense than this guy. Like maths. He has maths today.
(Ugh, he hates school.)
(He thinks he hates this guy more, though.)
And Tōkan will also message Kuroji-san about this because he is 100% certain Inori will neglect to inform his dads and part of properly wooing Inori is wooing them.
This is going to work. He has a good feeling about it.