Mugi has to come to terms with Kayo's leaving, but she just can't. She has been so dependent on Kayo for the four years she has known her. At the same time, Chitose is deciding when to confess to Katsuragi. And the seniors -- Nono, Mirei, Risaki, and Katsuragi -- are preparing for exams and for graduation. Haw will all these threads come together?Mugi is looking at the photo of her and Kayo together and says: "I love Kayo's smiling face." Mugi is at her locker when Kayo arrives and says good morning. Mugi can hardly face her. The teacher tells the class that Kayo is going overseas to study photography.Title: "I love your smiling face."Mirei, Katsuragi and Risaki try to get Nono to help get Mugi out of her funk, but Nono says: Can't Kai do it? She says that if she were to do it, it would just be discharging a responsibility.When Kayo, Kai and Chitose ask Mugi to have lunch with them, as usual, Mugi flees. Kayo apologizes to Kai, who says it's not her fault, and even Mugi knows that. Chitose catchs up to Mugi and says she can't get away. Kayo will soon be gone, and she has to go back to being friendly with her. But Mugi is embarrassed that she hasn't been able to wish Kayo well. Chitose says she has decided that when Katsuragi has finished his exams, she will go and confess to him. She says she's very nervous about it,but that she would regret it a lot more if she never did it. Mugi says she just can;t go to Kayo. Chitose thinks: Kayo is really something, to have been able to stay friends with someone like this for four years.Kayo is looking through her photos of Mugi. Chitose comes in on Kai when he is drawing a picture of an improvised bomb. She says: It's true what they say, that artists are all idiots! She tells him she has something she wants his help with.Elsewhere, Mugi is walking down the hall toward the room she uses to hide from things. She sees the door is open and goes in to find Mirei with the dressed manikin there.Mugi asks if the costume is hers, and why it is in that room. Mirei says that she will go now, and adds that you can't cry someone whose leaving back again, it only prevents you from seeing them as they go.Kayo looks at the poster of Mugi and thinks she has begun her own path, and it was such a stimulus for her (Kai). She thinks back to when they were starting middle school, and she broke through with the shy Mugi to become her friend. Mugi remembers how much she loved Kayo's smiling face. At that time, Kayo told Mugi that she was moved by photos she saw in magazines and wheedled a camera from her father. It would be so great to take photos like that, she thinks. Mugi says Kayo will definitely be able to, and that Kayo's dream is her dream. Mugi remembers Kayo laughing as she snuck a photo of Mugi, and thinks how much she loves her smile. Mugi wonders why she can't support Kai so well now.In the classroom, Kai tells Mugi he has a book of photos from kayo for her, and that Chitose wants her to meet her in the theatre. Mugi goes there and starts leafing through the photos, thinking that Kayo must be angry with her, and realizing that she has not been thinking of Kayo, only herself. Then Chitose calls her up to where she is practicing on stage.Chitose says Mugi should say goodbye to Kayo from there. Mugi refuses and tries to run away, but Chitose catches her and says she hates her like this, that she should think back to how she was when she was on stage at the festival, that she became a different person under the lights. Mugi says she know she has to, but her feelings still just won't let her. Chitose keeps trying, but Kayo suddenly appears and asks her to please stop forcing Mugi.Offstage, Chitose is crying. Kai says she's a good person. Chitose says she alray loves someone else, it's no good praising her. Kai apologizes to Mugi for not telling her about the possibility earlier, and just springing it on her. Mugi says it's not her fault, it was her being so involved with acting that gave her no chance. She loves Kayo's photos and wanted to be her friend always, but was just thinking of herself and has been terrible to Kayo.Kayo says it's all right, that she understood. But Mugi says it isn't all right, that she's being comfroted and rescued again by Kayo and she has to get herself together and do it on her own. She tells Kayo go and do her best, and Kayo thanks her. Kai doesn't think they have accomplished anything, and leaves so as not to ge in the way. Chitose is weeping over a great final scene. Kayo points out that she and Mugi are sitting where Mugi did something that she couldn't do. She says she will send her lots of photos, and askes her to have more self-confidence. Mugi is happy to see Kayo smiling face again.Time has passed. Kayo has gone. The seniors' exams are over. "Now it's my turn," says Chitose. Nono, Risaki, and Katsuragi are in the hallway together. Risaki says Katsuragi is relaxed because he passed. He agrees, saying his ability has been recognized. Mugi comes up and formally thanks Nono, saying she has understood what she meant by the image of the "petal." She leaves, and Risaki says she guesses Nono's bitter medicine worked.Mugi goes to the room with the manikin in it and finds Mirei trying to get in, but the door is locked. Mugi says she'd like to see Mirei wearing it, but Mirei says it is Nono's, the costume she should have worn if her voice hadn't gone. Back home in bed, Mugi thinks of Mirei and how she feels about the costume and Nono. She debates telling Nono about the costume that Mirei had altered to fit Nono. Then she realizes that he feeling may be.... And looks at the date of the graduation ceremony on the wall.
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