Summer of Hope 2026 2: Makoto's No-Escape Zone
(人◕ω◕)(人◕ω◕)(人◕ω◕) Okay, let's be real for a second... Makoto is in incredibly dangerous territory right now. You can practically cut the tension with a knife! The only reason there hasn't been an absolute free-for-all over the egg is because they clearly called a temporary truce just to corner him on the sand.
(人◕ω◕) Just look at Mikan-chan. She has that perfectly sweet, yet slightly creepy, bordering-on-obsessive devotion where you just know she hasn't blinked in a solid five minutes. She’s just waiting for him to get a tiny sunburn or a scrape so she can go into full overprotective nurse mode.
(人◕ω◕) And then you have Nozomi and Karua closing in on the other side. You'd think being sisters would make them perfectly happy to share, but knowing them, this truce is just the quiet before the storm. They’re definitely having a silent competition over who gets to claim his lap first, but for right now, they are more than willing to team up to make sure Makoto has absolutely zero escape routes the time of his life in safety.
(人◕ω◕)(人◕ω◕)(人◕ω◕) The poor guy is totally surrounded and vastly outnumbered. He’s definitely not surviving this beach trip without getting completely and utterly..... smothered by hope, but hey, there are definitely worse ways to go~