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Plot
When she first entered working life, Chizuru was already getting into trouble for taking over tasks her co-workers did not finish in a timely manner. She believed she was doing the right thing and fixing problems caused by others not keeping up with deadlines, not understanding that she was also making others look bad and hurting the team atmopshere. Her co-workers made complaints about her, which eventually led to her being asked to resign. While she got re-employed quickly, she did not change her behavior, and the same pattern of events repeated itself again and again until her suspicious-looking CV made her unemployable.

As Arata tells Chizuru to rely on others more, these events from her past come back to her mind. Talking in her sleep and perhaps more to her memories than Arata, Chizuru apologizes for having been unable to change. Gently brushing her hair aside from her forehead, Arata thinks to himself that Chizuru's efforts to change herself have already shown a lot of results, and realizes he is not as grown-up as he thought was either. The delicate moment is interrupted by teasing messages from An and Ryō, who have been listening behind the window, and Arata hastily tells himself that the only reason he was stroking Chizuru's hair was to get the sweat off her forehead.

Trivia

 * The events of this chapter took place on.