1. This is the girl who was in the same class as him in middle school.
2. They are now in the same high school, and have been in the same class since their first year.
3. He tells those around him they're just "stuck with each other," but Chiryo was in love with her.
4. That said, it was still a faint feeling, one whose shape hadn't even begun to form.
5. Even if it's still vague or unrequited, he could just nurture it slowly from now on.
6. However, in reality, there is one circumstance that makes that impossible. And that is—