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Plot
In the evening, Rena is at home thinking about what she saw when she was spying on Kazuomi and Mari Shikido talking in the family restaurant. While Kazuomi did not look like having a particularly happy time, Rena feels hurt and jealous for him spending time talking with Mari despite never finding the time to do the same with her. However, she resolves to keep trying but to be more direct, and to ask him to see her in the coming three-day weekend face to face rather than over LIME as she has done so far.

Two days later Rena still hasn't found the courage to ask Kazuomi out like she was planning to. On their way home from school together they are caught by a torrential downpour of rain, and take shelter under Rena's umbrella. As Kazuomi offers to hold the umbrella, joking that he should at least be able to do that, Rena is encouraged to ask him out and explains in an apologetic tone that she would like to spend more time with him. However, thinking about the approaching application deadline for the external universities, Kazuomi is not in the mood for it and declines, but says they'll have to go another time. As he wonders what it is that Rena would even want to do with him, he is taken aback by her response that she'd like to go shopping for new earrings together.