Chapter 64: We Aren't Adults

**We Aren't Adults** is the sixty-fourth Chapter of *Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu*.

## Summary

Sanae walks into the apartment, announcing her arrival. Anna nervously comes out of her room, having just stashed Ichikawa inside, and greets her. Sanae asks if she has a friend over, looking at the extra pair of shoes at the apartment entrance, and Anna says that Chi is visiting. Inside the room, he is panicking and asking how he keeps getting into these situations. Events flash back to a few minutes prior, with Anna saying that it's fine that he's here because she has friends over all the time. He asks if she ever has *male* friends over, and she adamantly denies it, and he also brings up how he's dressed in her jersey, saying it's a lot. She says one day, when he's dressed properly, and trails off, before taking him into her room and closing the door.

Back in the present, he is looking around Anna's room in wonder, but quickly reprimands himself for getting excited, because he made her lie for his sake. He considers how it's too late if they get exposed, and if she is caught lying, how that might make her life difficult with her family, especially since her mother seems like the strict type.

Outside, Sanae asks about the remaining hotpot still on the table, which Anna says she made herself, then heads to the bathroom, realizing a bath has already been drawn, and says how thoughtful that is of her. Ichikawa, listening from the door, says that her taking a bath could be his opportunity to escape. Anna asks her mother to wait, and walks into the bathroom, putting her hand in the water, and saying the temperature is just right. Sanae, noticing her daughter's red face, and how strangely she's been acting, grabs her cheeks and feels for a temperature, asking if she's sick. She tries to dismiss her mother's fears, and they change topics to Anna's bear hoodie. She repeats that Moe got it for her, and she is wearing it because of how cold it is. Sanae declares that Anna's father will be home soon, that she has a similar hoodie, and says she'll put it on, giving Anna a chance to go back into her room with Ichikawa, and once inside she closes her door with a sigh. She dismisses her own relief, however, saying that her father is on his way, and Ichikawa tries to calm her down, saying he'll leave as soon as her mother gets in the bath. She sits down on her bed, and he asks what kind of person her father is. She looks at Ichikawa and says "similar," and he takes it to mean 'similar to her,' but she begins to correct him before getting interrupted by the pounding of feet across the floor outside. Sanae busts through the door just as Anna gets Ichikawa underneath the blankets, and she marches up to the bed, asking about Chi's allergies, and if it's okay that she ate from the hotpot. Anna tries to downplay things, saying she ate most of it, and Ichikawa tries his best falsetto imitation of Chi saying he's sorry for intruding. Sanae leaves, seemingly satisfied, and the two kids apologize, with Ichikawa clarifying that his presence made her lie to her mother. His eyes wander to her windowsill, where a bottle of Royal Milk Tea is sitting, and she suddenly tackles and pins him to her bed. She leans in close and says that this is payback for last time. She says it's fine even though this is the first secret that she's kept from her mother, but hops off him and declares herself an adult. Ichikawa, covering his face, retorts how she thinks that way despite calling herself in third person at home, causing her to blush, and begging him not to tell anyone.

Outside the apartment, Anna waves Ichikawa goodbye after giving him a coat. He calls his parents to come and pick him up at the convenience store on the street, and makes his way to the elevator and begins riding it down, exhausted. He considers all the secrets they managed to keep, and how different her mother is compared to what her outer appearance implies. When the elevator doors open, a giant of a man wearing a chef's apron underneath his coat is standing higher than the doorframe of the elevator, and looks him over, staring at the "Yamada 2-3" emblazoned on his jersey. Ichikawa runs off, intimidated by the titan of a man, who looks back at him as he passes, and Ichikawa vows never to return to such a scary place as a high-rise apartment. A later text is Anna apologizing for how crazy things got, and asking him to come again later, and him saying sure.

* A bonus page is Sanae coming out of the bath, looking refreshed in her animal hoodie, and her daughter and husband looking on in awe.

## Trivia

* First appearance of Yamada Yuki, though he is unnamed for the time being.
* Yamada's comment about her father being "similar" is obviously not about her being similar to her father, but her father being similar to Ichikawa.
* The bottle of Royal Milk Tea on her windowsill is almost certainly the same bottle Ichikawa gave her in Chapter 27. It's also important to note that this comes off of new information that she is given her favorite foods by her parents when she feels at fault for something and is sad, mirroring Ichikawa's actions.
* While his actual thoughts are never spelled out, Yuki must be suspicious of Ichikawa, as he is wearing an identical jersey to her and coming down from the higher levels of the complex, where his family lives.