Waiting for Spring manga volume 9 features story and art by Anashin.

The pressure is on now that Aya and Towa have both professed their love to Mitsuki! Fortunately, she has a reliable mentor in Nanase, who is happy to offer what advice she can. But in the course of the conversation, Mitsuki hears some news so troubling that she forgets her own romantic woes…Are Ryūji’s hopes doomed to come crashing down around him?!