Akane joins the offline meetup of the Chocolate Rabbit Guild being held at the FOS collab café. Though she’s able to recognize who Yamada and this Rurihime-like girl is, she struggles to figure out who the two others in attendance, Eita and Mr. Kamota, are. Seeing this, Yamada suggests they start with self-introductions, where Akane finds out that Mr. Kamota is a player with the username takezo and he is a strawberry farmer who she’s never come across in FOS. The other unknown figure, Eita, was the player of a character that Akane would never have guessed…

Yamada visits Akane’s apartment to help repair her laptop. After a certain experience he had, Yamada had been trying to get too close to women. However, for some reason, he just wasn’t able to take his eyes off of Akane taking an afternoon nap. He unthinkingly reaches out to touch her hair, but then he stops when he hears the doorbell ring. When Yamada goes to check the front door, he finds Akane’s ex-boyfriend, Takuma, standing there. Shocked to see Yamada coming out of Akane’s room, Takuma explains his reason for his visit…

Akane, who was now determined to confess her feelings to Yamada, reaches out to ask for advice from Momoko, the friend who consoled her after her most recent break up, and Rurihime, or rather Eita. As to not lose the momentum she got from that, Akane heads to Yamada’s apartment without any forewarning, but she had arrived just when he is rushing out of his home to get to cram school and can’t get herself to tell him how she feels. They decide to meet again after he finishes his lessons but are then met with a sudden rainstorm. Along with the rainstorm, Tsubaki also makes a sudden and impulsive action, which ended up leading to Akane and Yamada’s plans to meet up being cancelled…