So while semi-skim-reading my way through the routes, and putting together amateur bare-bones walkthroughs (as yet incomplete, but I’m working on them as we speak!), I continue to come closer to shipping Hijikata and Iba:
Iba: “Don’t worry, though. You’ll be seeing more of me.”
Hijikata: “What? What are you talking about? You don’t have to keep coming back here.”
Iba: “Aw, don’t be like that. Come on, we are both from Edo. We’re buddies.”
Iba drew Hijikata closer in a jovial manner, and Hijikata blushed at the notion. Hijikata is normally really uptight, so seeing him behave this way was startling. I had a lingering suspicion that Hijikata was actually… enjoying himself.
I now want to write a fluffy little oneshot where Chizuru tries to set them up