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Plot
On New Year's Eve, Arata is at home pondering sending a LIME message to Chizuru to ask her to go with him for the first shrine visit of the year but decides against it, thinking it is not a good idea for a high school student to go out in the night. As Arata mumbles to himself that he wants to meet her again, to his annoyance Ryō barges inside uninvited and suggests they spend the evening together with beer and sushi and reminisce about the year that has passed.

After they have finished eating, Ryō congratulates Arata on confessing his feelings to Chizuru and now having a high school girlfriend. Arata tells Ryō that despite him and Chizuru being in love with each other, they are not going out together. He was intending to ask her that after their mutual confessions but found himself unable to do it as he was hiding his true form and the fact that he is going to disappear soon as the experiment ends.

However, Arata tells Ryō that he has decided to contact Chizuru again when he is back in his real form even if she does not remember him and may be cold toward him at first, as unlike for a high school girl it is not unthinkable for her to have an older partner when she is a university student. Not having expected for him to be this serious about Chizuru, Ryō tormentedly listens as Arata eagerly talks about his hopes for meeting her in the future as he knows that he is most likely going to forget her too. With great difficulty he maintains his smile in front of the grinning Arata, and raises a drink to his resolution.