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Bringing in the love love cliches for great justice. Thanks, Yumi’s mom.

Summary:

• While thinking about the previous events at the theme park, Yumi feels as if someone is calling out to her.
• While questioning her mother about this, Yumi gets a call from Suguru who tells her that Touko has gone missing from her home after an argument with her family.
• Elsewhere, Rei expresses her worry about Yoshino’s gaining a potential soeur to Sachiko, who in turn gives her sympathy. Rei reveals that she will not be attending a Lillian university, but Sachiko will be in order to be close to Yumi.
• Touko eventually shows up at Yumi’s house, after being found by Yuki. Yumi denies that she has contacted Touko’s family, then noticing that Touko is very cold from wandering outside for so long.
• After dinner with the Fukuzawa family, Touko decides to finally go home.
• The next day, Suguru appears to offer his giving Yumi one of Touko’s secrets. Giving her time to think about this, he leaves her with thanks from Touko’s family.
• In the Rose Mansion, Yoshino asks Yumi to invite more people to the upcoming party so that she could invite Nana more naturally.
• When Yumi asks Noriko to invite Touko and Kanako, she refuses in annoyance. In the end though, Shimako suggests that they all go to invite them.
• Yoshino privately apologizes to Noriko while in the halls, then guessing that she truly just wanted Yumi to ask Touko to come herself.
• Touko and Kanako announce that they will be busy during the day of the party, but they agree to go if they are released from activities early.
• As Yumi leaves, she sees Touko bow to her to express her gratitude. She soon realizes that if she did not take some sort of action, Touko would become even more distant from her.

Preview: Things heat up at the party!

Impression:

Just went I started to feel like this series was getting draggy, this episode dished out a whole lot of awesomeness to make up for it. Yumi’s obvious reactions towards her mom were hilarious (T_T), and her interaction with Touko caused all kinds of unintended giddiness. The themes of friendship showed through so much in every scene in this episode, from bike rides to hand holding, making for all kinds of win no matter how you look at them. Yumi is clearly getting closer to Touko now, with her mecha anime-esque visions with her, and it looks like this won’t even be the end of Sachiko after the next graduation. With this, Yumi’s harem can only get bigger! We can’t say the same for Rei, but at least Yoshino has a lot of flashing to look forward to in the following years.

I wonder what Touko’s secret is…

EDIT: aurabolt has started counting the number of times Yumi changes her ribbon in each episode.