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Plot
On the day before the festival, the final preparations are underway and Arata is back in school with the others. Chizuru brings him the butler clothes made for the teahouse serving duties to try them on for size. As he does so, Arata leaves his necktie loose like usual. Chizuru attempts to correct it, but taken by surprise by the sudden move at his sensitive spot, Arata slaps her hand away with a horrified expression. Shaken and hurt more by his reaction than the slap, Chizuru runs away. Arata intends to apologize, but still recovering from the shock himself, does not go after her.

As Arata is in the locker room changing into his regular school uniform, Ryō turns up, and again tries to advise Arata against carrying on his half-hearted behavior and isolating himself from the others. As he confronts Arata about whether he really is happy with how things are with Chizuru, Arata denies that she has anything to do with his happiness. Seeing that he cannot get a discussion going about Arata's true motivations, Ryō notes that if that is indeed the case, Arata must not have a problem if Ryō takes Chizuru for himself, giving Arata a jolt.

Trivia

 * The events of this chapter took place on.