While cleaning the drama club room, Rin finds a time capsule from 2014, with a letter from a girl named Rin to her presumably unrequited love. While she and Eiji are currently happily dating, our Rin doesn’t want to end up like that Rin; she wants to make her feelings for Eiji clearly known as soon as possible.
No longer filtering her feelings through her characters, Rin uses them to enhance and spice up her interactions with Eiji, who is more than willing to play along. He even initiates by musing on whether Tsundere-chan will still wear twin tails ten years hence. When Rin grabs him by the arm and giggles, it’s the kind of easy, casual yet affectionate contact you don’t often see in school rom-coms.
The night before Rin spends new years with relatives, she and Eiji talk late into the night, as you expect a couple to do. When Eiji urges her to get a good night’s sleep, he can tell from her hesitation to hang up that she’d like him to talk her to sleep, breaking out Spoiled-chan as a reward. He then proceeds to talk about the Jurassic period, a subject sure to lull her to sleep.
The two meet up after her family trip for a shrine visit, and he admits he wants to make as many fun memories with her as possible before he graduates. When snow falls, she walks behind him in his footsteps to keep her shoes dry, only to state she prefers to walk beside him.
The two are also cast as the prince and Snow White in the drama club’s farewell-to-graduates play, which requires that Snow White kiss the prince. I assume the drama club is already well aware of how close they are. After getting some sage advice from her bestie Megu, Rin tells Eiji she has something to say to him after the play. As for the play itself, the lights go out when she’s supposed to kiss Eiji, but she ends up kissing him for real, “on accident.”
As if this couple wasn’t sweet enough, after the play they reenact how they first met when he pretended to be the drama club’s president. That transitions perfectly into Rin telling Eiji what she wants to say. Unfortunately, we don’t get to hear the words, but there’s no reason to believe they aren’t some version of “I like you,” as planned.
Before you know it, it’s Eiji’s last day. He finds Rin on the balcony outside the club room. He teases her a bit about becoming popular after graduating. Their goodbyes here are bittersweet, but only partial, after all. Sure, the days of seeing each other every day at school are done, but he invites her to hang out at his place after her next few half-days, assuring him that they’ve “got plenty to look forward to.” As this is only the seventh of twelve episodes, so do we!
