『Chinatsu Kano』

Age: 17 (16 prior to chapter 45)

Birthdate: August 26th

Club: Girls' Basketball Club

Uniform Number: 10

A second-year attending Eimei Senior High School as well as a member of the girls' basketball team. Her likable personality and prowess in sports make her one of the most popular among her schoolmates. While she's mostly known as a laid-back student, Chinatsu is secretly quite competitive, as she frequently arrives to practice at the gym in the morning even earlier than Taiki Inomata.

Due to her parents moving overseas for work, Chinatsu's mother sends Chinatsu to stay with the Inomata family since Taiki's mother and Chinatsu's mother used to be teammates in high school.

In chapter 45, Chinatsu is promoted to Vice Captain after the team's loss at nationals.

Chinatsu's favorite food is Oyakodon, but she also likes omurice just like Taiki.

Chinatsu has a tendency to appear out of nowhere behind Taiki and startling him, her own little way of messing with him.

Chinatsu acknowledges she has developed a romantic interest in Taiki and compares her feeling to a "growing flower," a flower that hasn't had a chance to blossom due to her focusing on basketball.

On Christmas eve, she expresses sincere gratitude towards Taiki for allowing her to mend her relationship with her childhood best friend, Yumeka. While Taiki simply says he's just returning one of the many favors she's done for him, Chinatsu leans in and hugs Taiki to express her gratitude, and maybe something else. The two share a long, quiet hug in an empty gym on that Christmas eve.

While visiting Konami Lake in Nagano on her New Years Break with her family, Chinatsu messages Taiki to let him know she's gone smelt fishing near where the badminton team is taking their vacation. Seeing his opportunity to clear things up between them, Taiki leaves the group and rushes over to Konami Lake to see Chinatsu. The two meet on the frozen-over lake covered in snow.

After catching his breath from running, Taiki looks into Chinatsu's eyes and tells her he likes her, a lot. Chinatsu reveals she's felt the same way.