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Plot
Having gotten used to wearing the silver pin and its associated benefits for two years, Rena is in a dark mood for having it taken away from her by Chizuru. Rena glares at Chizuru as she accepts the silver pin from Ms. Amatsu at the front of the class, and Chizuru's eyes meet Rena's as she walks back to her desk. Happily deciding to use the opportunity to be more social, Chizuru shows Rena what she herself thinks is a polite smile but looks to Rena like a triumphant smirk.

Arata notices and understands what happened between the girls. With what Arata thinks is a display of bad timing, Kazuomi attempts to console Rena by saying her performance was probably affected by the cold. However, Rena refuses to accept it as an excuse, stating that she was simply not as good as Chizuru. As Kazuomi tells Rena that being so serious is not cute, she remarks that he must be happy not to have her as his fellow class representative any more. Dumbstruck, Kazuomi wonders why she would think so, and as Rena gets defensive Arata suspects other feelings might be influencing her behavior.

At that moment Ms. Amatsu announces that anyone who failed any exams must retake them every week until they pass. As Arata panics at the seemingly endless string of retests ahead of him due to his very low scores, Rena asks him if he failed something. Upon learning how badly Arata did both Rena and Kazuomi are in complete disbelief and Kazuomi offers to help him study, thinking it unlikely that Arata would be able to clear the retests by himself. His offer attracts the attention of An, the transfer student sitting nearby, who asks if she could join them as she not only failed all the tests too, but scored even lower than Arata.

Trivia

 * The events in this chapter took place on.