#this post honestly could've been shorter/just included the final panel as proof but i wanted to make sure of the timeline in hirakagi lol

[khattikeri]

some timeline shenanigans and musing to figure out when Hirano and Kagiura will confess/get together. long post ahead!

In Sasaki to Miyano vol 1 ch 4 (ambiguously set around July-October of Sasaki's 2nd year and Miyano's 1st) we get this panel of Sasaki offering Miyano mitarashi dango.

As of the end of SasaMiya vol 9 we're two years past this panel, with Sasaki and Hirano in college and Miyano and Kagiura as 3rd years.

One thing to note is that in SasaMiya Vol 9 Ch 43, Sasaki and Hirano chitchat on the train. Sasaki notes that Miyano would've been "thrilled" to see Hirano... and for good reason. There's a ring on his left hand's ring finger!

From this we can extrapolate that Hirano and Kagiura are definitely together and might have been in a relationship for longer - if they started dating around the same time as Sasaki and Miyano, it'd be strangely early (albeit not completely impossible) for them to wear pair rings.

We'll come back to this that train of thought. As for the mitarashi dango from SasaMiya v1c4: in Hirano to Kagiura vol 5(?) ch 21, we get a very similar scene...

...of Sasaki offering the dango to Hirano, before Miyano comes to the classroom. Same time frame, then! Somewhere between July and October of Sasaki and Hirano's 2nd year and Miyano and Kagiura's 1st.

This matters because right after that scene, in HiraKagi vol 5 ch 22, we get the delicious beginnings of Hirano starting to realize his feelings.

For reference: Sasaki's official confession to Miyano is in SasaMiya vol 3 ch 13-14, which takes place in May around the beginning of Sasaki's 3rd year and Miyano's 2nd. That could be anywhere from six months to nearly a year after the mitarashi dango scene.

So what the hell is going to happen between Hirano and Kagiura during those months? SasaMiya sort of timeskipped through it, but the HiraKagi manga is taking us much slower at a much earlier point in the timeline.

We can't pinpoint, but we can narrow it down by looking at chapters set in the future. More specifically, in SasaMiya vol 3 ch 15, we get this exchange between Sasaki and Hirano, where Hirano tells Sasaki more or less to be direct about how he feels and clear up the misunderstanding with Miyano.

Sasaki's confession was in May; this chapter takes place in June.

Excuse me? Hirano Taiga, the guy who is constantly stuck in his head over how he treats Kagiura and unsure of whether to view it as romantic or 'just looking out for a kouhai', telling Sasaki to stop making excuses and just tell him?

Unless Hirano is a massive hypocrite, I suspect that by June of his 3rd year/Kagiura's 2nd year, he and Kagiura have already had a mutual confession.

TL;DR - I think it happens sometime prior to June of Hirano's 3rd year and Kagiura's 2nd year.

Whether they drag it out by not actually dating yet or just start dating with the confession is another thing entirely ofc, but I'm delighted to assume the best ^^