Episode Title:
Heat Haze.
Episode Description:
Koshiro and Nanoka visit Makie's house together and give her a helping hand with chores. That night, they walk to a pier, and they question whether or not they should commit shinjū. Although he is saddened and confused, she is fine either way as long as she is with him. Koshiro decides to quit his job, and Kaname wishes him well on his way out. Koshiro stands outside Zenzo's house and apologizes. Zenzo's job takes him to the amusement park, which is to be demolished and redeveloped into a shopping mall. He expresses regret that the cherry trees outside the park will all have to be cut down. Koshiro and Nanoka frolic in the playground near the amusement park, to the disapproving stares of the local matrons. Then they hide and stay in the theme park where they met after it closes. They sit on the Ferris wheel in the middle of the night and try to move it by prayer. In the morning, they carve their names on one of the cherry trees in a Japanese version of "
Koshiro + Nanoka", and promise to go back there every spring. When Nanoka has walked off to go home, Koshiro says to himself that he loves her.
