This episode was an extremely emotional journey for Chihaya, though it also helped salve old wounds and left room for her relationship with Arata to potentially blossom. Whether or not they'll actually become a couple remains to be seen, but after confronting Arata about why he quit playing karuta, there's a lot of potential things to happen. We start off with Chihaya and Taichi scrambling to catch a train and we find out that they're taking a day trip to Fukui to visit Arata. Taichi is irritated by the whole thing, but goes along with Chihaya's plans to confront Arata and find out why he quit playing karuta. He chastises Chihaya for not only being late, but for needing to borrow money from her sister in order to afford the trip in the first place. Chihaya ignores him and instead focuses on what she's going to say to Arata when they get to Fukui. During the trip, Taichi becomes irritated that Chihaya isn't enjoying the trip and the scenery like she should and the two get into an argument about it. After the two of them calm down a little, Taichi finally musters up the courage to ask Chihaya if there's someone she likes. She thinks about it for a moment before saying that she likes Dr. Harada, but every year when she tries to give him Valentine's chocolates, he rejects her. Taichi is flabbergasted, but tells her that's not real love, so Chihaya demands that he tell her what real love is. Taichi hesitates, but finally says that love is when it isn't fun to be with someone. Before he can finish, Chihaya pipes up and says that it doesn't sound like how love should be and asks if he has fun with his girlfriend or not. Taichi says that he does have fun with her, which irritates Chihaya and she shouts at him, saying that he only brought it up to brag to her. She goes on to say that he should have taken his girlfriend on a date instead of wasting a day on at rip to Fukui with her if he has so much fun with his girlfriend. Taichi becomes irritated and doesn't say anything, but we get to hear his mental monologue where he continues his thoughts on what love is. To him, being in love is when you don't always have fun being with the person, but continue to enjoy being by their side anyway.
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