If Tsukishima Also Loved the Moon

[Main Story Complete] Extra chapters updating

[Warm on the outside, cool on the inside (Tsukino) vs. cool on the outside, warm on the inside (Tsukishima)] No secondary couples

Before she turned sixteen, Ryoka Tsukino's world was small. She only seemed outgoing; in truth, she let very few people into her life.

Because they were around the same age, Tobio Kageyama was the person closest to her.

But after her grandfather died and she chose to quit volleyball, that closeness began to change into something else.

Then someone dragged her away.

She was forcibly swept into the world of Kei Tsukishima.

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Before high school, if Yamaguchi had told Kei that one day he would put his mind to use on a girl, Tsukishima would never have believed him.

Romance? Tch. Not even a dog would bother.

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“Are you not going over there? Kgyama's over there.” Tsukishima pointed at Kageyama, who was still training, his deliberately provocative tone obvious.

Ryoka looked back at the big hand crumpling her T-shirt. “If you really want me to go, let go.”

“Of course I don't really want that.” Tsukishima tightened his grip and simply bent down to lean against her.

“You're all sweaty.”

“Yep, all sweaty.”

He pushed his luck further, rubbing his forehead against her neck. Ryoka squinted at him, so exasperated she nearly toppled backward.

“You first-years over there! No making out in front of this old man!” Nishinoya shouted, scandalized by the sight.

Tsukishima smiled faintly. “Senpai, we're just acting perfectly normal. Don't be so sensitive.”

“Argh! Tsukishima, you...!”

She was holding onto his shirt hem too, after all. It was just “tit for tat.”

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It started because her name also had “Tsuki” in it.

After that, he could never look away. He even envied Kageyama for being her childhood friend.

[Make her yours, Tsukishima.]

2023.09.27

Yes, steal Kgyama's childhood friend!

(Of course, that's just me, the author talking. It has nothing to do with Tsukishima.)

(They're actually cousins, but Japanese law allows cousins to do that sort of thing, if you know what I mean.)

Coming soon:

“The Bomb Disposal Squad of Beika Town Has Quite the ‘Life Story’”

Yeah, yeah. What life story? They're alive. (Lights cigarette.)

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If Jinpei and Kenji hadn't been by Hinata Takahashi's side, her life would have turned out completely differently.

The three of them grew up playing around together. It didn't matter that Jinpei was her rival in love, or that Kenji was always there to put her in her place, or that the three of them had a huge fight the day before. That's just how life goes~

They'd been inseparable since elementary school, went to high school and university together, and in the end, Hinata even followed Jinpei and Kenji to the police academy.

She wasn't really suited to a job that required physical combat, and her time in Onizuka's class was pure torture.

If her two childhood friends hadn't dragged her along, she probably wouldn't have survived even the first day.

After finally graduating, she barely made the cutoff for the bomb disposal unit, and Hinata worked incredibly, incredibly hard.

So hard that she thought her life would always go on like that.

Until that day

The explosion rang out across the entire Asai villa complex. Just a moment earlier, Jinpei had been on the phone with Kenji. Now he stared blankly at the phone in his hand, the only sound left on the line a busy signal. Both his childhood friends had been on the other end.

“I'm really angry now.”

“If we die, avenge us.”

Hagiwara's words proved prophetic.

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1. Love interest: Jinpei Matsuda; second male lead: Kenji Hagiwara.

***The heroine once admired Chihaya Hagiwara, but she and Jinpei were never really rivals in love.***

Theme: Jealousy runs wild, nourished by all the moonlight it could want