Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Vol. 5

All is moving along rather nicely.

My favorite volume so far! In this book, Adachi finally tells Kurosawa the truth about his ability to read minds & our four main male characters meet for the first time.

Adachi and Kurosawa invite their friends to their company as testers for new products. Kurosawa gets jealous of Tsuge (Adachi's friend) because they seem close and Adachi touched his abs (lol). Tsuge immediately picks up on Kurosawa's jealousy but he's worried about his own problems.

Tsuge invited the dancer crush of his and needs Adachi's advice since he too can now read minds as a 30 yr old virgin. While they're talking privately, Kurosawa (the jealous and possessive guy he is) is eavesdropping and jumps to conclusions. He snags Adachi to a private room to ask if “there is someone else” and Adachi reads his mind about Tsuge. He clarifies that they're just friends and Kuro pushes that Adachi is hiding something bc he is never so open with him in private as he is with Tsuge.

Adachi finally admits that he's a wizard and can read minds. Kuro takes it well but he is embarrassed at first. Something I don't understand is that Adachi tells Kuro that he couldn't read his mind when he was drunk that time Adachi took care of him, but I thought he could?? I will have to go back and double check. Kuro seemed relieved at that. I know there is a flashback to Kuro admitting that that's when he fell in love with Adachi, so I'm confused.

Anyways, Kuro takes advantage of Adachi's abilities to speak to him privately in the office lol and he even lands a steamy kiss on Adachi in the office too in private after the confession.

As to Tsuge, I wasn't too interested in his romance, but after this book, I'm rooting for him to get together with Minato. He's a good guy, but the ending was brutal. Minato privately thinks that Tsuge is like a father figure (ooof!). Poor guy. There is an 8 yr age gap which doesn't help.