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It’s hard to take this chapter at face value.

As for the title page. I think the “curtain” being pulled exposing the wilting flower is pretty relevant. It also looks like a hand gripping a bed sheet. I think it suggests the current state of the senpais’ relationship: the white and upright silhouette being a facade or even a memory (what the two show our protagonists—perhaps fuelled by a desire to protect these “seeds”, this continued tradition that represents their past love), and the wilting upside down flower being the reality, hidden behind this curtain of, or perhaps revealed by, intense passion

You could also consider the hand itself reaching for the wilting flower. Maybe representing a desire to continue this love even if it has changed and it isn’t as brilliant and bright as the flower above it.

So maybe it would be amorous passion that would bring forth this decayed and maybe even ruined (though once gleaming) love. Or it was this unchecked passion that caused this aforementioned transformation. We’ll have to see to be sure

Regardless it would be ironic flip that it is their “secret love” that they wish to display but their true feelings is what they wish to conceal