Wind Breaker shenanigans

Immediately bought the JP raw to see what we're working with cos the ENG is surprisingly heavyhanded with the...non-platonic connotations and (£! "! #+" ;#! #?

"For you, I've always..."

「オレはお前が…」

Ore wa omae ga...

Hey, so—what if I lost my shit here, once and for all? Let's go through a list of Best Of Buds™ things that Sakura could be saying here, and what the JP original would then have to look like:

"I've always respected/admired/trusted you" → Ore wa omae wo

"I've always thought of you as _____" → Ore wa omae (no koto) wo

"I've always looked for/chased after/etc. you" → Ore wa omae wo

Something about how Sakura needs Suo? That would have to be "Ore ni wa omae ga"

Like do you see what I mean. I'm not one to speculate about stuff like this (cos I hate being wrong aha) but with today's chapter, I'm just sitting here like What!!!

I'm also so curious as to whether the translation team get any insight into what Nii-sensei means for Sakura to say here. Cos "ore wa omae ga" could honestly end in a lot of ways, it's such an incomplete blank canvas of a phrase in Japanese and yet the English TL feels so...sure, in the direction that it's taking. Rather than the JP raw on its own, it's really a combination of the JP + the translation choices made by the ENG team that's making me look at this like it's the nuclear bomb to my coughing fujo baby.

*grabs the staff by their shoulders* WHAT DO YOU GUYS KNOW....

By the way, if the thing Sakura was saying was "I like/love you?" The JP for it would go something like: Ore wa omae ga...