Taiga has a photo album full of blurry pictures of Kitamura. Ryūji offers to snap some pictures of him instead.

Followed by a stalker, Ami hides out with Taiga and decides that she must discard her fake personality from now on.

As preparations get under way for the school's cultural festival, Ryūji urges Taiga to consider reconciling with her estranged father.

Taiga's reconciliation with her father divides her friends, but she ends up disappointed when her father doesn't attend her school play.

Taiga wins a beauty contest despite a crushing disappointment about her father; a race is held to determine who will dance with Taiga.

A rumor starts that touching Taiga leads to good luck; Yūsaku gets some interesting news from the student council president.

Yūsaku has a meltdown in class, dyes his hair blond and refuses to run for student council, causing everyone to wonder what's wrong with him.

Yūsaku reveals his love for Sumire, a student council president who is leaving to study abroad, so his friends urge him to run for her council seat.