Episode Title:
KiGrainy, Huh?
Episode Description:
Raido begins playing the game Grainy Crossing which entails building a village by farming, gathering, hunting and fishing alongside the talking Tanuki Tom. Raido plays so obsessively he ends up running his own city as a Yakuza boss with Tom as his lieutenant. One day Tom is assassinated and Raido remembers Aharen plays Grainy Crossing and decides to visit her village. There, he finds Aharen also runs a large city, only everyone is prosperous, whereas Raido’s city had been built to cater only to his desires. The attention to detail is so great Raido wonders if Aharen is planning to replace the real world with a virtual reality world and live there permanently. This is proven unlikely when Aharen shows up to school as normal and reveals she shares her Grainy Crossing account with Ren, who did most of the work himself. The next day Raido accidentally drinks Amazake at breakfast and develops an aggressively masculine personality due to being drunk. As a result no one at school knows how to deal with Raido, especially Aharen who finds she likes it, as does a mortified Eru. However, returning home Raido realises it was actually non-alcoholic Amazake and abruptly returns to normal. Later, Raido’s sister meets Eru and is surprised so many people think of Raido as kind and reliable, when she can only see him as her weird older brother.
