Chapter 2

## Listen, Yamada. You're kinda cold.

* Japanese
* English

## Chapter Chronology

**"Listen, Yamada. You're kinda cold."** (山田ってなんか冷たくない?, *Yamadatte an'ka Tsumetaku Nai*) is the second chapter of the *My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999*, written and illustrated by Mashiro.

This chapter also serves as the second chapter of the first Japanese tankobon (collected volume) release of the manga.

## Summary

Yamada asks Akane who she is, but his monotonous reaction unsettles her. Suddenly, Takuma and his new girlfriend approach them, but he ignores Akane and only pays attention to Yamada. Takuma excitedly talks to him and introduces him to his girlfriend as a professional gamer, claiming he is a big fan. Akane, dissatisfied with being ignored, introduces Yamada as her new boyfriend. Yamada is unwilling to act at first, but Akane offers him a discount code for a Seer Stone, which she had gotten from the event, and Yamada complies to pretend.

Takuma falls to his knees after discovering that Akane managed to get Yamada's attention while he spent years following Yamada online. Akane deems her act successful, but she gets envious when she sees his girlfriend cheer him up.

After the event, she and Yamada visit a pub, where she sorrows over Takuma and his girlfriend. She rambles about them to Yamada, who always replies bluntly. Akane admits that she dressed up that day to make Takuma regret leaving her and asks about Yamada's career as a professional gamer. He explains his profession, but Akane is uneducated. She asks him a couple of questions, but he responds coldly. Akane tells him that he will not be popular with women if he keeps his cold demeanor up, but Yamada says that he is not interested in romance and has never had a girlfriend before. Akane believes his good looks are a waste, but she agrees that romance is terrible since she got cheated on. Imagining Takuma and his girlfriend, she is moved to tears and excuses herself to the restroom.

Akane realizes that her clothes are dirty and her foot is wounded after tripping earlier at the event. When she returns to the table, she discovers that Yamada is gone and guesses he has gone home since she forced him to stay. Realizing she is alone, Akane tears up until Yamada returns after buying a box of band-aids from a convenience store. He patches Akane's wound, and she finally cries. In a haze, she orders more drinks for herself.

The next day, Akane wakes up with a hangover and hears a voice at the back of her head. When she sits up, she sees Yamada sitting by his desk with his setup while talking to someone. He notices that Akane has woken up and excuses himself.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

**Akito Yamada**
**Akane Kinoshita**
**Eri**
**Furukawa Takuma**
## Author's Postcard

*“Thank you for reading Chapter 2. There's a girl I became close to in an online game a long time ago. She became the inspiration for Akane. She was a cheerful, kind, and elegant college student. She's a bit different from Akane in the story, but we both weren't really experienced with online games. We still occasionally keep in touch. Sometimes, we even play games together. It's still a secret that she served as a model for the manga (laughs).”*