Chapter 104: I Like Her More

**I Like Her More** is the one-hundred-and-forth Chapter of *Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu*.

## Summary

Ichikawa ponders Adachi's offer to face him in the cavalry battle as he ties his shoe, showing that he awkwardly didn't respond to his offer, and left him hanging until he stormed off in embarrassment due to his lack of reaction. He then accepted his challenge, and, back in the present, pulls up the hood on his running jacket and, despite thinking victory won't mean anything of substance, is determined not to lose. Despite this, he finds himself overheated and out of breath, and grabs a cold drink from a nearby vending machine. He recalls a theory he heard where training your body during a growth spurt will interrupt it, and concludes that he's done enough for today. Nigorikawa manifests, saying that is nonsense, and brings up that Ohtani Shohei was working out since he was a child. They bicker over the differences in baseball and muscle training, and he gets frustrated until he tells Nigorikawa to go away. His thought process is interrupted by the sound of a dog barking, and he looks down to find Yamada imitating and petting Wantarou. She spots him and immediately stops her game, feeling embarrassed, and asks coldly if he needs something. She takes a seat on a bench, saying she was just talking with Wantarou. He asks why she didn't just talk in Japanese, but she counters, claiming he wouldn't understand. He says it would have been that way regardless. She asks if he was taking a walk, or exercising for the sports festival. He tries to make an excuse about being in top shape for a zombie apocalypse, and you never know when the world will get flipped upside-down. She offers a race to prepare, and they begin running, with him realizing part-way through that he doesn't even know the destination. She declares victory once they make it outside her apartment. She then brings up how they have various tools in her apartment, and invites him inside.

Upstairs, Ichikawa considers this a dangerous development as Yamada mentions that her mother is out in Toyosu today. She brings out an ab roller, asking him what the device is for, and he guesses correctly. She begins demonstrating it as he sits on the couch, commenting that he is a bit surprised that she works out like this. He considers this a kind of unseen effort, and she begins scolding Wantarou, who has positioned himself underneath her as she does her rolls. She tells Ichikawa to move him, and he very carefully positions himself over her and brings his hands underneath her arched body to grab the dog. As he grabs him, Wantarou nuzzles Yamada's chest with his nose, and runs off as she flops down, flustered. She nervously asks him which one of them did that, but he doesn't understand what she means. He begins trying the ab roller as Yamada runs into her room, and she returns, now wearing a jacket and carefully rolling a large dumbbell down the hallway. He scolds her, saying it's not good for her to bring it out if she can't even lift it, and that if she can't, he definitely can't. Changing topics, she asks if he told Kugenuma and his friends that he'd be their rider for the festival, and he said he did, and was creeped out by the weird smirk he gave upon hearing it. She says that he surprised him by accepting Adachi's challenge, poking fun at the way they agreed. He says that he agreed because Adachi is a friend. As he moves on to the dumbbell, Yamada mentions that, for a sports festival, you need a bento. As he prepares to lift the weight, he considers how Adachi has also liked Yamada this entire time, and Yamada asks him if he likes his omelettes sweet or savory. He answers sweet ones, and, in his head, thinks that he likes Yamada more than Adachi, lifting on the and screaming the "more" in tandem with the lift. She rushes over to help him put it down, telling him to be careful. She declares that he must really like sweet omelettes, and he affirms, telling him that he doesn't need to bring food on that day. He asks why, and she says she'll do her best, too.

## Trivia

Yamada seems to have clearly planned out her race to end up at their house so they could have some alone time inside.