I definitely…should have seen…y-you didn't really want to date me seriously. Becoming someone else…I mean, you sh-shouldn't have to do that, just because I'm…a coward, and I really wanted you to like me…!

[Crap. He wasn't going to cry. He feels like he wasted his chance, just like missing another serve, being forced to get back off the court. He didn't cry then, but there's no game and nothing else to distract his attention this time from the regret he feels. It's only natural that Oikawa was really looking for something else when he came to him, isn't it? Yamaguchi could have seen it sooner if he'd been willing to recognize the other boy was holding back. And then they wouldn't have wasted so much time, and maybe…]