Honoka Sawada

Honoka Sawada (沢田 ほのか) is one of the side characters that made an appearance in chapter 29. She is first seen stalking Izumi Miyamura, causing many people, including Kyouko Hori, to assume she has a crush on Miyamura. However, it is revealed that the person she has feelings for is Hori.

Appearance
Sawada has waist-length black hair that has a single hair strand hanging in the middle with chin-length hair strands hanging on either side of her face, blue eyes that has a mole under her left eye and she is noted to look very much like Kyouko Hori by Izumi Miyamura.

She is mostly seen in her school uniform with her shirt tucked in her skirt.

Personality
Sawada is a very clingy girl towards Kyouko Hori. Due to her attachment to Hori, she often gets angry when Hori is together with Izumi Miyamura, choosing to push him away. She views Miyamura as a sibling rival, but also as a brotherly figure. She was very close to her older brother who passed away some years ago. She also appears to have mild androphobia, often freezing up, running away or hiding when approached by men. However, ever since she got to know Miyamura, she would hide behind him instead whenever a male approaches her. She is slowly getting used to being around Miyamura's male friends. Sawada gets scared easily, when a floorboard was creaking when she was sleeping, she went to sleep with Miyamura.

Kyouko Hori
Sawada is an admirer around Hori, and as a result, always clings to her or hugs her when she sees her. She is very clingy with Hori, contrary to how Tooru Ishikawa acted around her before (embarrassed) and how Izumi Miyamura was with her before they were in a relationship (unaware of his feelings). She may be in love with Hori since she is not good with dealing with men/boys, Miyamura being an exception. Her brother, who she was really close to, passed away. After this, Honoka seems to avoid any males.

Izumi Miyamura
They are neighbors, although she initially sees Miyamura as a rival of love, she seems to see him as a fraternal figure. She was very close to her older brother who passed away a year ago and Miyamura brings back memories of his loving nature. She often hides behind Miyamura when it comes to men as she is very bad at dealing with them. She often climbs onto the balcony to his room at odd hours of the night looking for his company, much to his annoyance. Once, when Kakeru Sengoku was in Miyamura's place for a sleepover, she scared him when he saw her pressed against the glass door of Miyamura's balcony as she peeked into the room.

Hori Family
Sawada was invited to have a dinner with them.

Tooru Ishikawa
Sawada later opened up more to the boys, including Tooru.

Shuu Iura
Sawada did not have much impression about Shuu other than that he was a loud boy usually wearing hoodies.

They once came to the Miyamura residence, but missed each other. Honoka thought he was Izumi for not seeing his face.

She felt guilty for calling him loud later, after he helped her carry a heavy box to the school's science room.

Kakeru Sengoku
Sawada later opened up more to the boys, including Tooru Ishikawa. Kakeru Sengoku and Remi Ayasaki later helped her with a recruitment poster of her class's art club.

Yuki Yoshikawa
In a windy day, Kyouko Hori noticed Sawada's hair was messed up by the wind and subtly commented that it was hard for Sawada, so Yuki and Remi Ayasaki helped Sawada redo her hair.

Remi Ayasaki
Yuki and Remi once helped Sawada redo her hair in a windy day.

Remi, along with Kakeru Sengoku, later helped her relocate a club's recruitment poster.

Class 2-5 Students
Two of her classmates were shown to have bullied Sawada. Izumi Miyamura later defended her by mouthing some nonverbal insults to them.

She was awkward towards most of her classmates at first, but since an incident happened with the art club's recruitment poster, she helped them relocate it with Kakeru Sengoku and Remi Ayasaki's assistance (which was witnessed by Shimoda), they warmed up to her.

On the Valentine's Day, one of her classmates, a girl with brown hair, later asked her about one of the senior boys she hung out with, who turned out to be Shuu. She reluctantly asked him about chocolates, being misunderstood that she was the one who wanted to give him a chocolate.

Yuuna Okuyama
In c.154 of the webcomics, Sawada saw Izumi Miyamura walking Yuuna back home. She felt jealous towards the younger girl, stating that it should have been her who walked alongside with Miyamura as a younger sister.

Quotes

 * “Who cares about winning?!” - to Izumi Miyamura

Etymology

 * The name Honoka is written in hiragana (ほのか), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (和花 or 穂香), it could possibly mean:
 * 和花 - "harmony, peace" (和) (hono) and "flower, blossom" (花) (ka).
 * 穂香 - "grain" (穂) (ho) and "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (ka).
 * Honoka's surname Sawada means "marsh" (沢) (sawa) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (ta/da).

Trivia

 * Sawada's birthday is June 24th.
 * Based on how Sawada idolize of Kyouko Hori and abhorrence of most men, it is implied she is a an irritating little sister.
 * In Chapter 67, it was said by Izumi Miyamura that Honoka doesn’t like scary things.
 * When walking with Hori and Miyamura, Sawada is about a head shorter than Miyamura.

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