The mayor of Animal Town is hosting a Tsuchinoko Tracking Competition and Komugi and the others are joining in. While failing to find any clues, Mey Mey comes to check on the Niko-sama egg and drops it down a slope.

Yuki and Mayu see Satoru receiving a confession of love from a female classmate. That day after school, Satoru hears from Iroha that “Keiji, who I adore, is coming to my place” and gets quite a shock.