Chapter 72: I Got Chocolate

**I Got Chocolate** is the seventy-second Chapter of *Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu*.

## Summary

Yamada walks the halls when two of her fangirls approach, offering Valentine's chocolate. She thanks them, walking up to Chi, and announces that she's going to make another round, to which a frantic Chi replies that she has already made five whole tours. Meanwhile, Ichikawa considers the date and how it's a day like any other, while Adachi makes a complaint about the concept of "friend chocolate" and how it is a conspiracy by chocolate companies to make boys sad. Inside the classroom, Moe dumps a collection of chocolates on Ichikawa's desk, announcing it is first-come, first-serve for the boys. After they take their pickings, Ichikawa glares at the remaining piece, asking Moe to move it. She asks if he took one, and he says no, and that he doesn't want it. She says she figured as much, which is why she put them on his desk, and leaves. Yamada then comes up and snatches the remaining piece for herself, saying that "for today I'm a boy," while Chi berates her for her greediness. Adachi asks about a nut in his piece of chocolate that looks vaguely like a heart, wondering if it might be a sign of romance, to which Moe says she regrets giving him any. Adachi then asks Ichikawa his opinion, claiming they're both pure-hearted, but just gets rebuked.

In the library, Yamada plays Shogi with Ichikawa, but using tirol chocolate instead of traditional shogi pieces. Despite not knowing the rules, Ichikawa eventually agrees to play, and after some back-and-forth, Yamada concedes defeat. She says that the winner gets all the pieces, and pushes them towards him. He adds them to his bag, and he obsesses on how he's gotten chocolate on Valentine's Day.

Back in class, Adachi is asking the other boys if they have any other chocolate. They show off Moe's pieces, and he claims that unless it has hearts on it, it's just friend stuff. Ichikawa quickly shakes his head, determined not to act like him. Moe, sighing, declares that just giving out chocolate isn't enough, and that you need to be clear your intent and feelings or it just causes confusion. She says she should have given the ones that specifically said "friends" on them, while Yamada sulks at her declaration.

Outside, Ichikawa is walking out of the building, when suddenly Yamada grabs him by the collar and drags him around the building. She points out Hara and Kanzaki, and how Hara is giving him a bag of Valentine's Chocolate. Ichikawa says that it's silly to be jealous over chocolate, misinterpreting her interest, and causing her to yell out how that's not what she's saying. He thinks on how strange she's been acting today, and he says how she didn't have to give it to him today, because they walk home together and go on dates all the time. He adds that school is a place of learning, and decides to head off, but Yamada hops onto the back of his bike, with her legs hanging off the sides. She requests a ride, saying that riding like this is scary, and grabs onto his side with one arm. As he continues, she asks him to go slower, because a single day is a long time.

## Trivia

* The two girls who bring Yamada chocolate are the same girls that ask for a photograph in Chapter 11, who ask about her busted nose in Chapter 15, squeal over her greeting them in the morning in Extra 51.1, and ask if she's waiting for someone in Extra 69.1.
* The cover image is a "mistake" image of the Volume 5 cover. The mistake is that Ichikawa's arm should still be broken at this point in the story.
* Most of the events of this Chapter and the next are remakes of the real-world Valentine's Day Extras, including Extra 22.1, Extra 40.1, and Extra 64.1.