Takase’s crush wants to talk to him about something, but she beats around the bush. Minagawa confesses to Furuya-kun — or does she? Akagi catches Kaji smoking. He could rat her out, but he has different plans. Sasahara wants to confess to her crush before he graduates, but her unfortunate defense mechanism makes that difficult.

Furuya’s sister, Hotaru, doesn’t want him dating Minagawa — or anyone, for that matter. Kaga has a hard time caring about anything, and Sasahara has a hard time pitching anything — especially the astronomy club. Goda is dense as hell. Takano is about to walk home in the rain, when Sugawara offers her an umbrella. She, too, is dense as hell.

Chiaki and Kana have apparently been dating for a year, but you wouldn’t know it. Matsuura gets rejected. Her senpai annoys her out of her mind. Yamane’s crush, Kurihara, asks her out on a date. He malfunctions. Sugawara offers to help Takano with cleaning duty. He thinks she thinks he thinks she thinks he’s asking her out.

Kana finds Chiaki’s porn, and so they get it on. Kaji calls Akagi out on manipulating her. Minagawa tortures Furuya with mind games some more. Takano is still denser than lead.

Kanda decides to text her confession to her crush, Takase, but a race condition results in a deadlock. Kaga’s childhood friend, Nanase, joins the astronomy club, but she seems to have an ulterior motive. Goda and Kamine are finally dating, but he has trouble communicating his feelings.

Akagi is tutoring Kaji, but he keeps flirting with her, driving her to show her bad side again. Kana and Chiaki discover that mothers are a very effective contraceptive. Kurihara and Yamane make plans to go to the movies, but he that realizes he’d had plans to go to the movies with his (only) friend, Motoyama-kun. Dating master senpai is back, this time apparently wooing Kazuko.

Furuya’s sister, Hotaru, gets into his phone. She tries to troll Minagawa, but Minagawa pulls out her mind games once again. Kamine wants Goda to say he loves her, but he doesn’t know how. Kanda has been avoiding Takase ever since their awkward text confession. Dating master senpai to the rescue! Takano is so dense, even her own body is trying to give her hints.

Ayaka tries to become more intimate with Takeru and ends up sharing her first kiss with him. When news of this reaches Chiaki and Kana, Kana asks why their relationship has not progressed the same way; and Chiaki ends up clumsily attempting to kiss her. Ryōko becomes incensed when Masafumi asks to fondle her in the library. Kazuko finds Shin’ichi badly bruised under a tree and seizes the chance to make a move on him.

Takurō and Chizuru repeatedly glance at each other during swim class. Haruhiko and Saki address their recent miscommunication and decide to become friends again, though each still harbors feelings for the other. Ayaka hopes Takeru will kiss her again due to her coughing during their first kiss; but Takeru is hesitant, thinking the first kiss was too forward. Jun has decided about going out with Yuki, but he becomes frustrated when she has trouble being serious with him.

Chiyo meets Takao behind the school to give him homemade pudding, and he brings Tomomichi along for support. Ayaka gets jealous when she sees Takeru with other girls; and Chiaki and Kana later see the two being openly romantic in the park, noting how much they have both changed. Chiaki invites Kana to his house in an attempt to finally kiss her, but she gets mad and breaks off their relationship when he kisses her after pretending to be drunk.

Takano’s band friend tries to get her to fess up about her crush. Kana and Chiaki try to patch things up, but technology tears them apart even more. Mom to the rescue! Exams suck, but Kaji is inspired and determined to go to college.