"... Are you sure you want to go to school with me? Sayaka has someone she likes, right? And yet you wanted to go school with me, so wouldn't that person you like misunderstand you?"

As I said that, Sayaka's face turned a bit red.

"I-it's fine!"

She said out loudly. I wasn't sure what was fine with this.

Was Sayaka really that unfaithful? The feelings I had for Sayaka seemed to have changed at this moment.

Dude WTF! She is your childhood friend that you have been walking together for ages. Let's ignore the fact that the person Sayaka, for some unfathomable reason, likes is you. Assume that she likes another person. Why should she stop walking with you? Why should walking with a friend be unfaithful.

It all started after his father's death.

MC, his mother, and his younger sister are all going through grief.

His younger sister is jealous that MC is happy spending time with his childhood friend instead of her after their father's death, so she refused to talk with him.

His mother who is overworking to support her family focused on giving attention to the younger sister after the father's death because she is the youngest.

MC misunderstands her childhood friend when she said she found someone she likes after he spots her having a friendly conversation with a senior. The childhood friend is trying to get love advice from the senior who already has a gf.

Then, he spots her younger sister and mother having fun without him which caused him to break. In reality, they were secretly planning to have a surprise birthday party for MC.

Protagonist

• Good point
  • He tries his best to have some attention from his family and take care of the house while the mother is working
• Bad point
  • He mostly doesn't get any clue about his environment, he doesn't hear people talking to him
  • He wants to be loved, but at the same time he is closed off to any interaction

Protag mother

• Good point
  • She works hard as a single mother to feed her two children.
  • She really is busy with work
  • She is the only character that understood the problem of MC (but have absolutely no idea as to how to make him happy)
• Bad point
  • she works hard after the death of her husband and decides to only spoil the youngest child. I understand that she have to work, but she made time for her daughter, but not her son.
  • She always takes the wrong answer or behavior.
    • Her son stay awake and sit on the floor until 2am that she's going home after work, just to tell her it was his birthday yesterday and think she had forgotten. Because she doesn't want to spoil the surprise party she prepared for him (but postpone because of work), she didn't say anything.
    • At this point, she knew of the fracture between her and her son. She is worried about him have a part-time job and start asking her daughter about it, like in front of him but quietly whispering. Then, after he went to his room, she realized she has excluded him from the conversation.

Protag sister

• Good point
  • Hard to think of anything, I just said that she isn't that bad and she is still a child.
• Bad point
  • She acts like a brat
  • She was awkward to reverse her own mess about her relationship with her brother. Even if she was noticing his suffering. But not after he closes himself off.

Protag childhood friend

• Good point
  • None (I won't say “she isn't a bad person inside” because she is)
• Bad point
  • She is inconsiderate and basically doesn't care about him.
    • She forgot his birthday
    • She only wants to go out with him because she was dumped by her cool sempai
    • She dismisses his feeling
    • She arbitrary decided to go out with him without his consent and use tear to have sympathy from outsider when he refused.
    • I doubt she even knows that he have difficult time with his family.