No one ever said fifty years dead had done anything to Hanako’s maturity! Indeed, Yashiro really was the first person who had said she liked him (even if that had been a ploy to lure out an apparition and they hadn’t talked at all about it since).

Hanako’s face is still flushed and avoidant at Need’s knowing drawl.

“How what is?” It’s hopeless, he can’t hide it, but that doesn’t mean Hanako can’t try. He’s awful with feelings, admitting them or otherwise, despite how expressive he normally is. How long had he known Yashiro… he’s trying to spin the conversation back around to more comfortable territory. “We met beginning of last semester.” Not that Hanako himself ‘attended’ school, but when he had ended up here, it was sometime during summer break. Not long and yet he was smitten.