Valentine’s Day has arrived, and with it a lot of futile anticipation among the “losers.” Indeed, in Ayanokouji’s class Yousuke is the only one who gets a bunch of chocolates. He personally couldn’t care less, oblivious to the fact Kei is looking forward to their next meeting for that purpose.
He also checks in on Suzune (who also doesn’t care about chocolate) and her progress with Kikyou. Apparently after persistent inviting she got Kikyou to meet her at a mall café. Suzune still thinks friendship, or at the very least détente, is possible.
After school Ayanokouji has Kei meet him outside so as not to attract unwanted attention, but they have it anyway: Hashimoto is watching him, having heard during the training camp that Ayanokouji was Hanabi’s favorite and that he was responsible for Ryuen’s downfall.
While Kei was hoping Ayanokouji wanted to meet her today to exchange chocolate, he only really wanted to know if she knew the number that called him. It’s not in her contacts, but she promises to look into it. She then gives him chocolates she claims she bought for Yousuke but didn’t want to go to waste.
Kei is clearly happy to hear he didn’t receive chocolates from anyone else, and tells him he can think of her as his “emergency backup.” From his distance, Hashimoto can’t make out what they’re saying, but it sure looks like it’s just “romantic stuff” and nothing more.
But Hashimoto isn’t in Class A for nothing, and decides to go in for a closer look. Ayanokouji and Kei play it cool, implementing what is either a designated plan for instances like this, or they’re just that locked in a duo. Kei starts by saying she merely needed a random guy to give the chocolates originally meant for Yousuke.
When Hashimoto is still suspicious, Ayanokouji tells Kei to tell the truth to avoid trouble later. She then says she was giving it to Ayanokouji so he would give it to the guy she really likes. It’s a pretty good gambit, but as soon as Hashimoto hears Kei isn’t interested in Ayanokouji, he wall slams her and asks her out.
At this point Ayanokouji peaces out, but before he leaves Kei twisting in the February wind, she’s able to separate herself from Hashimoto and leave before him. Hashimoto then asks Ayanokouji for his number, and he obliges.
That night Ayanokouji prepares some rice porridge as he surveys the five boxes of chocolates he got from girls, among them Haruka and Airi (and perhaps Satou Maya as well?). But the purpose of the porridge is the only girl he intends to visit on Valentine’s night: Ichinose Honami, whom Kei reported was still holed up in her apartment.
Through the intercom, he can tell she’s not feeling well. She greets him in a mask, and invites him in provided he wears one too. She’s grateful for the porridge, admitting she doesn’t remember the last time she’s eaten. She puts on a brave front, but Ayanokouji knows that even if she caught a cold randomly, the stress of the rumors are affecting her immune system.
The next day, a surprise attack on Ayanokouji’s class is launched. The message boards are filled with scandalous rumors: Ayanokouji has a crush on Kei; Hondo is only into big girls; Shinohara was a prostitute; Maya hates Onodera, and so one.
The person in the class most interested in reveling in and propagating these rumors happens to be Yamauchi, the potato-faced NPC whom Arisu asked to speak to last week. He of the most punchable face takes the rumors as fact and rubs them in the subjects’ faces, much to their consternation.
Ayanokouji flatly denies his crush (which we know to be the unvarnished truth), and as he sits beside Suzune she laments that something like this should happen just when they were starting to enjoy a measure of class unity.
Was this action sanctioned by Arisu as a way to further provoke Class C into A’s clash with B? Was it a matter of Hashimoto taking the initiative? Whatever the case, it’s definitely made things interesting.
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