It’s school festival time, which means people from outside the school will be paying a visit. If you want to be dramatic, you can say that Suzuki’s past has come to haunt her, ooooh~! But it’s anything but the case. I always found this portion of the story to be a little odd. More specifically, people keep trying to act as though Suzuki has a romantic history with a former friend, but she doesn’t. She and this Oka guy were and are still friends, people suggested that they should date, he jokingly went along with it while expecting Suzuki to shoot him down, but she didn’t. We know how she used to be. She would read the room and get swept up with the flow. As a result, they agreed to date… without actually dating. There were no feelings involved. They held hands maybe once? She even deliberately turned away from Oka when he tried to kiss her, but he wasn’t even doing it ’cause he liked her. He was just going through the motions. From my Western sensibilities, nothing happened. But back in the present, Yamada says, “Hey, don’t pretend like you and Ricchan were never a thing.” What thing?