Guilt

"Don't you feel bad?"

Nagisa blinked and looked up. "Eh?" He didn't know the girl standing in front of him; well, didn't know her name, at least. She looked vaguely familiar. "Bad about what?"

"Seducing Tachibana-senpai away from Nanase-senpai," clarified the girl. "Don't you feel bad?"

"Huh? What - no - Haru-chan and Mako-chan are just friends!"

Nagisa had always tried really hard not to be jealous of how close his two oldest friends were. But there was always that niggling doubt -

The girl gave him a pitying look.

Nagisa felt sick for the rest of the afternoon.


Not necessarily connected to the previous chapter, though you could interpret it that way, I guess.