While Creamy Mami's career continues to thrive and flourish, Shingo soon finds that there is a price to be paid for taking Megumi for granted when Snake Joe explains Megumi the interest in her LP Productions has taken; after observing the concourse, Yuu sets course for home where Midori explains her the idea behind hikinuki and the damage it causes alongside Toshio who adds that the whole thing is up to Megumi. Firmly resolved to extinguish Snake Joe's subterfuge, Yuu approaches Shingo with her concerns the next day only to find that Snake Joe is a step ahead of her as he forces Shingo's hand and backs him into a corner; if Shingo's complacency about Megumi's loyalty and his obliviousness to Megumi's frustration are not enough, Megumi's brinkmanship gambit to scare capitulation of Shingo ignites an adversarial divergent concourse with resolution and epilogue uncertain. While Snake Joe tries to wield Megumi's ambivalence to his advantage, Yuu finds that the ultimate deus ex machina to resolve things lies in Shingo and Megumi's collaborative prologue involving the »Parasol of Stars«; a scavenger hunt for clues across town and a magical intercession from Creamy Mami later, Megumi and Shingo reconcile their differences.

Tetsuo and Natsume look on with delight as Yuu prepares some home-made chocolate before deciding to playfully tease her as if she were a small child clumsy in the kitchen before Yuu derails them with the mention of the »ingredient of love« as she joins Posi and Nega on the roof; after the love spirit infuses her chocolate, Nega explains Yuu that the epilogue is a reflection of her efforts going forward. Galvanized by the data of home commute conclusion much to his social chagrin, Yuu races ahead to customize Toshio's room the next afternoon with Posi and Nega's help not realizing that Toshio has stopped to read the magazine on the way home. Yuu races out to greet Toshio whose preoccupation with what he thinks is a love letter from Creamy Mami ignites a divergent concourse that prompts her to repudiate Toshio in disgust and run away in tears; after commiserating with the anguished Mami Shinoda at the park, Yuu sets course for a church that is a crucial component of her prologue with Toshio who is at a loss for what he is doing wrong. Midori interjects himself as the ultimate deus ex machina for both Toshio and Yuu to see the light regarding their human fallibility at the site of Toshio's most altruistic intercession for her.