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Plot
After the scene with the university boys has settled Chizuru's shift is over, and Arata and Chizuru are having a talk in a quiet place in the school grounds. Feeling bad about causing trouble to Arata as well as everyone else, Chizuru is about to go and apologize to the teachers, but Arata tells her he lied about the teachers looking for her so the boys would let them leave peacefully. Arata then apologizes to Chizuru for not noticing earlier that she was in trouble, and asks if the boys did anything to her, suspecting her innocent desire to learn about love might have had something to do with it.

Chizuru tells him what happened and that she slapped one of the boys' hand as he touched her, and that being touched by her must have been similarly unpleasant to Arata. Arata then reveals that it was not about Chizuru but his discomfort with being touched around his neck by anyone, and is surprised by how easy he found it to have the talk with her and relieved by how seriously and kindly she listened. While Arata still believes it would be best for Chizuru to distance herself from him, he understands there is no way he could have left her in trouble, and that even if she forgets him in the end, he still prefers to see her happy now.

As the executive committee duties are not holding either of them up anymore, Arata asks Chizuru to go and see the festival with him. Rena and Kazuomi have been spying on them behind the corner, and while Kazuomi may never have even been aware there was anything unusual going on between Arata and Chizuru, Rena is happy to see them reconciled.

Trivia

 * The events of this chapter took place on.