Chapter 28: I Find School Fun

**I Find School Fun** is the twenty-eighth Chapter of *Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu*.

## Summary

Kyoutarou is in the living room of his house, eating breakfast and speaking to Kana and his mother about the workplace observation day and how much of a "pain" it was, and complaining about all of the people involved. Kana reminds him that he talked about this yesterday, making him deflect about how he was telling his mother about it yesterday. Flustered, he stuffs the remainder of an egg toast into his mouth, and gets up to leave. Kana comments that school must have been fun, for him to talk about it so much.

At the school gate, Ichikawa is running the idea of having fun at school in his head, and replaying the moment Chi made fun of the idea of him reading a shoujo manga, telling himself that he'll never have fun at school. He notices Yamada standing at the gate, greeting everyone who comes in, and wonders if she's waiting for someone. He attempts to ride past her, but she grabs his bike handle as he goes by, telling him "good morning," and saying she would have missed him if he hadn't brought his bike. She follows him to the bike rack, then pulls out of her bag three volumes of Your Color's Octave. Ichikawa reacts initially with confusion, but when she asks if he doesn't want it, he says he does, and takes the manga. He asks why she wanted to give it to him now, and she says she can't be in the library today. She begins blurting out parts of the plot, and Ichikawa cuts her off, asking if she just gave out spoilers. She denies it, trying to justify her talk, but he says it's fine. She begins following him inside, but he asks if she wasn't waiting for someone at the gate. She looks back awkwardly, and mutters out some weak affirmations, and he continues inside, leaving her dissatisfied by the gate.

Later in the day, in the library, Ichikawa is reading a book in the library. Yamada suddenly enters the room, saying she is surprised that he is sitting. She calls him out, saying that he had previously said that standing let him absorb information from books better, causing him to curse her out in his head. She then points out that he isn't reading Your Color's Octave, and he offers that he is the type to read manga at home. She insists, and tries to take the book from him playfully, causing him to pull it back to him, because it is a book with extreme content in it. In the ensuing battle, Yamada's chest brushes up against his face, and she recoils, with both of them offering strained apologies. She says she has to leave, but he stops her with some muttering, eventually asking if she'll be at school tomorrow. She affirms, and says she'll also be at the library. In his mind, he concludes that school might actually be fun after all.

* A bonus page is Yamada waiting outside the gate during the moment that Ichikawa left her earlier in the chapter. She sees Rin Kanaoya, and uses her as an excuse to go inside.

## Trivia

* First proper appearance of Ichikawa's Mother.

* Yamada was only at the gate to give Ichikawa the manga, which he was oblivious to. She later has to use Rin to get inside and not look foolish.

* After this chapter, Ichikawa often sits at the table with Yamada when they're both in the library, notably in Chapter 30.