Rin has started going on dates with Kyouya, and while she’s not sure they’re boyfriend and girlfriend yet, Itsuomi isn’t shy about saying he’s glad his cousin is taking his love life more seriously. Rin is tickled pink by his words, but then takes her leave so he and Yuki can be alone.
He can tell she’s nervous about her interview, and she is, so he takes her hands in his and offers some German words of encouragement: he’ll keep his fingers crossed for her. That said, she’s also nervous about overt PDA, even if he isn’t!
The interview with Madoka’s awesome aunt goes splendidly, and Yuki has herself a job at her café. No drama at all! That happens while grocery shopping on a busy day at the store, a clerk wearing a mask checks her out, and she’s unable to understand him. She’s bailed out by Oushi, who happens to be shopping there too.
He admits he had drinks with Itsuomi, and tells her to come to him if he makes her cry or hurts her because he hates him. When Yuki tries to praise Itsuomi in sign, Oushi stops her, but then apologizes. We learn in another flashback that Oushi once saw Yuki in a crowded subway not knowing what was going on, and wanted to learn how to sign to make her world a little bit better and easier to navigate.
As it turns out, he accomplished that, as when they went to college together, his signing with her gave her a huge lift and helped keep her going. Yuki is confused by how nice he’s been lately, but he makes it clear he’s trying to be less prickly as he navigates a world where she’s involved with another guy.
While grabbing Yuki’s hand while she was signing was rude as hell, at least he apologized and made sure he didn’t hurt her. As for Shin, he’s been dreading hurting Emma by telling her Itsuomi has a girlfriend, but this week he’s finally able to do so.
He admits to her he’s telling her this not just to console her, but for his own selfish reasons. He wants her to understand that even if she can’t have Itsuomi, she has him, and always has. When she brings up that time back at school when he said he’d never fall for her “even if he died”, he shocks her by admitting he had planned to take his feelings for her to his grave.
That night, after a great day at work, Yuki is feeling a little blue about not seeing Itsuomi much lately, but he suddenly texts her asking if she’s still up, then shows up outside her house. When she can’t make out his signing in the dark and he can’t quite make out hers from her balcony, she runs outside to chase him down, stumbles, he catches her and gathers her in his arms.
She can’t hear what he’s saying as he holds her, but she can feel the vibrations of the words, which help melt away her frustration. At the swings he points out they haven’t made plans or gone anywhere since they started dating, and asks where she’d like to go. Yuki had been focusing so much on saving and getting a job, she overlooked the fact that they could still go on dates and do things less grandiose than traveling overseas together.
With Rin in a good place with Kyouya, Oushi working through his angst and trying to become less of a shit, and Shin making his feelings clearer to Emma (though I do wish their scene had been longer and ended less abruptly), the stage is set for Yuki and Itsuomi to have their first official date together as a couple, in the finale of a series I earnestly hope gets a second season*. I’m just not ready to say goodbye to these good vibes!
I’m told the source material is still being written, so if there is a second season, it’s unlikely to air anytime soon.
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