Report 177

Plot
Not understanding Rena's sudden emotionality, Kazuomi looks on in wonder as she takes the piercing device out of its packaging and hands it to him, wanting him to be the one to pierce her ear. He agrees, and as he gets ready to use the device Rena asks him to count down from three before he does it. Kazuomi moves closer to her, and seeing her tremble in anticipation of the pain with her eyes closed, on the spur of the moment he kisses her just as he does the piercing.

Her heart racing even more than it was before, Rena is surprised by Kazuomi who is usually slow to understand romantic matters doing something like that. However, he returns to his usual self when it is Rena's turn to pierce his ear. As she asks him to close his eyes too Kazuomi says that he does not need to because he is not afraid, failing to understand that Rena had a completely different reason in mind, and ends up receiving a whack instead of a kiss to go with his piercing.

In the evening Takaomi comes out of his room and asks who was in the house earlier, and Kazuomi tells him it was his girlfriend but thinks that it may not have sounded like Rena was having much fun. Takaomi teases him that he should not assault her, and to Kazuomi's amazement his annoyed denial of having done something like that makes his brother laugh. Remembering Arata's words that as a NEET he would not want his family to treat him the same way as the rest of society, Kazuomi yells after Takaomi as he returns to his room that he will introduce them the next time Rena is visiting.