Chapter 81

“High School Boys and Annoyances” is the 81st chapter of the manga.

Cover Page
A still of Hidenori with his spectacles in his pocket.

Detailed Summary
Hidenori is walking behind Yoshitake and thinks to himself that they’ve known each other a long time. Due to this, he gets annoyed by some trivial things about his friend. Yoshitake starts saying something, and Hidenori immediately gets his first example – how his lips barely moved while talking. He starts making a mental note of the other annoyances he has. One of them is that Yoshitake takes a long time to choose food items at the convenience store.

On the other hand, he finishes his ramen extremely quickly. While admitting that it’s strange, Hidenori is nonetheless annoyed whenever Yoshitake rolls up his sleeves. He can’t stand his overreactions, as illustrated by Yoshitake jumping in alarm near some dog droppings. Yoshitake’s frequent description of events as ‘surreal’ also irks him.

In another instance, Yoshitake points out that Hidenori had disposed of a bottle in the wrong bin. Hidenori accepted the blame, but Yoshitake’s pedantry annoyed him. At a movie hall, seeing Yoshitake cry at a sad scene, Hidenori is put off by his sentimentality. However, when Mitsuo, who is on the other side of him, asks why Yoshitake was crying, Hidenori realizes that he also hates contextually clueless people at the movies.

Hidenori goes on to note that Yoshitake’s seating posture annoys him, as does his forgetfulness about his cell phone. It annoys him when he stuffs change into his pocket without caution. When Yoshitake asks him what the next class was, Hidenori is annoyed since he could have found out for himself, although he knows he was just making conversation. It also annoys him when Yoshitake resorts to gags like stuffing two pencils up his nostrils, just to get a reaction. The fact that he can’t handle carbonated drinks annoys him.

The fact that Yoshitake often went to the restroom annoys him. Whenever Hidenori is absent, he gets annoyed by his friend going out of his way to make a copy of his notes for him. Hidenori is similarly annoyed that Yoshitake brings cans of coffee (which Hidenori likes) over whenever he visits, and was annoyed when he once lost his bicycle keys and Yoshitake started searching for them without a word.

He breaks this train of thought and smiles, happy that he is close friends with Yoshitake. Yoshitake then turns around with two pencils up his nostrils again. Hidenori grimaces, extremely annoyed that he pulls the same gags over and over.

Characters
In order of appearance:
 * Hidenori
 * Yoshitake
 * Mitsuo