Tachibana

Tachibana is a male student of Sainan High school, who is a year younger than Rito and belonged to the same soccer club in junior high school which Rito belonged to.

Appearance
His appearance is characterized by eyeglasses and blemished face.

Plot
Tachibana appears in Chapter 52 and 53. He attends to Sainan High and reunites with Rito, his senpai in soccer team during the middle school years. After seeing him interact with Lala, Run and Yami, he misunderstands as he convinces that Rito is a master of love. So, Tachibana asks him to help with his love affairs and wants Rito ask for the girl if she already likes anyone. But the girl is revelead to be Haruna. After seeing her reaction to the question whether she ran away blushing because she can't confess to Rito, Tachibana finally abandons her. Howewer he later take a crush on Yui and asks again for Rito's help.

Despite being a student and Rito's friend, he never appears anymore in later series.

Trivia

 * He often prefixes "-su!" at the end of conversation.