The Lookalikes

The Lookalikes are a pair of students from Sanada North High who bear a startlingly close resemblance to Yoshitake and Hidenori.

Appearance
The Lookalikes resemble Yoshitake and Hidenori in every respect (hairstyle, hair color, height and build), except for their faces. The two have narrower eyes and mouths, far more prominent noses and some wrinkles on their faces, giving them an aged look (it is likely that they are third-years). Even their voices match the others' so well that Tadakuni listened to an entire conversation between the two and couldn't tell the difference.

Personality
The two seem to like having rather bizarre conversations with each other, sometimes abruptly changing the topic without any heed.

High School Boys and Eavesdropping
The two are sitting on some stairs and talking to each other, and Tadakuni sees them from above while walking home. Mistaking them for his friends and feeling isolated, he eavesdrops on them to see what they talk about in his absence. The Lookalikes first discuss a story regarding a fish-man and someone's dead younger brother, before suddenly starting to talk dirty. They make Tadakuni uncomfortable when they don't stop even after some minutes.

Spontaneously, they switch to politics. They discuss the Democratic Party's actions and the 'Sano Cannon', whose shells are apparently meant for taking down meteorites. At this point, Tadakuni is agitated and confused, never having heard his friends discuss anything like this in the past. Suddenly, they decide to leave and start walking away. Tadakuni, now believing that he's not close enough with his friends, sees this as an opportunity to change things. He walks out and calls out to the duo from behind.

They turn around, revealing themselves to be completely different people. Tadakuni, startled, asks them who they are.

High School Boys and Consultations
The two walk past Tadakuni and Nago on a path below them. Tadakuni, having discussed his isolation from his friends with Nago, sees them and mistakes them for Hidenori and Yoshitake yet again. After some hesitation and being prodded by Nago, he runs down behind them and once again asks them to wait.

They look back, and he finds himself faced with the same two strangers. Now exasperated, he yells at them.

Trivia

 * Despite them being very minor characters, they fared very well in the popularity poll. Hidenori's lookalike came in the 11th place with 3,842 votes, while Yoshitake's came in the 16th place with 2,830 votes. They even managed to beat well-established characters like Ikushima and Yanagin.