This was a fantastic volume. It completely turned around my rather lukewarm feelings towards the series thus far, and now I'm all in. I'm not the biggest fan of the childhood-friend-to-lovers trope, and I felt like Subaru was being too cold and ungrateful to Chiaki for no reason. I also hate how Chiaki and Subaru's parents just accept that she would be the one to take up the task of taking care of Subaru's needs, like she isn't a child herself who needs to be taken care of. But... I'm a total sucker for unrequited yearning and when the boy falls for the girl first, so getting Subaru's perspective on their relationship so far was like a sugar rush for me, and I really want to see how things develop from here.