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Plot
Arata and Chizuru continue their talk in a park. Arata tells Chizuru he was not expecting to hear that she was a ReLIFE subject, and is even more surprised when she tells him she was quite sure that he was one. Chizuru asks Arata if he is disappointed that she is really a woman about to turn thirty, making her a year older than him. This comes as another shock to him, and saddened by his apparent disappointment, she states that she had no intention to lie to him and would understand if he doesn't want anything to do with her.



Smiling, Arata tells her that he likes her no matter her age and that he is actually happy with the revelation as he finds her even more attractive now, to her great surprise. He goes on about how he struggled with being unable to get close to her as students but does not need to hold back anymore, and embraces her. Arata confesses that he is in truly in love with her and wishes to be with her forever, and asks her to go out with him. Touched and blushing at his declaration, she voices her faults of not being a high school girl anymore, and he responds that he is no better. As the two smile at each other Chizuru gives him her answer that if he is okay with her she'll happily go out with him, and they share their first kiss on the park bench.

Sometime later in the ReLIFE Laboratory office, Ryō tells Arata that he has assigned a subject to him due to lack of time for Arata to find one for himself, teasing a dismayed Arata about doing it as his superior. Upon receiving the files Arata is surprised to see who Ryō has chosen to be his subject, and An reminds him to go and pick up the pills from Research & Development, teasing that he gets to see his girlfriend there too. Heading out, he thinks to himself that he is sure that Ryō and An set him and Chizuru up at the party and were spying on them in the park, and that he would like to go for drinks between the four of them as they have much to talk about.

Down in the Research & Development, he is teased yet more by Kento calling him Chizuru's husband, which is not made better by her correcting that they are not married yet. Chizuru tells Arata that she too was surprised by the identity of his subject and asks him to take care of him, and that she trusts he is able to.

Trivia

 * Arata finally learns Chizuru was a ReLIFE subject like him while she had suspicions about him.