Episode Title:
First Storm.
Episode Description:
Miyauchi gives Nanoka a love letter from Kazuyuki Asano, a student from his class who has a crush on Nanoka, but she has no idea how to respond to it. She shows Koshiro the letter and asks him what she should do, secretly hoping that he will tell her to reject the boy who wrote it. Koshiro, in an effort to be a good brother, instead advises her to try dating Asano for the day of the festival and see how things work out. Confused by her feelings, Nanoka meets Asano on the day of the festival and turns him down. He apologizes with no hard feelings, but she is left wondering about her 'strange' feelings and why she was thinking of Koshiro the whole time. A day later, Nanoka is walking home when she sees Koshiro behind her and accidentally drops her grocery bag in surprise. She chases after the contents of the bag, and Koshiro grabs her before she runs into an oncoming motorbike. In the ensuing conversation, he inadvertently calls her by name for the first time, startling her. She says that it's unfair that she's always the one who gets surprised, and blurts out that she likes him. (In Japanese, the phrase she uses can mean either 'like' or 'love', depending on context.) Assuming the latter interpretation, Koshiro blushes and Nanoka laughs, calling his reaction strange, before running home ahead of him.
