I see exactly where this trope is going.
Panicked, she ultimately screams (in her thoughts) the name of her friend and suddenly her hand gets grabbed by the very heavily-breathing and extremely worried about her friend she was just "calling" for... she thinks it's some kind of fate, destiny and...
@Xaelath Or they stay in the endless triangle/harem limbo which ultimately never ends up coming to any conclusion before the series ends...
It hurts to read this, why would I continue that...? I just want to live in my beautiful imagination-land where the Childhood friend wins, is it too much...
Not sure what to say, but I feel like I should say something to signal that there is definitely still ongoing interest in this manga by there being more comments, so I'll just repeat the usual mantra:
Koga best girl
I can already kind of see where this is going from this one chapter alone.
Let me guess: He's going to do all kinds of stuff to not embarrass himself in front of her which will all ultimately slowly lead to him fixing his life, losing weight, becoming more handsome and ultimately since his life...