Yummy yummy melon bread :)
[Summary]
Shion collapses because of all the strength she used to play shougi has left her weak. Ayumi calls out for help and Hisatani arrives to take Shion back to the hospital. Hani points out that his car is faster, so Hisatani brings Shion to Hani’s car to go to the hospital.
Ayumi is drown into her thoughts, she sees that Saori is standing at the door. Since the day Hani has praised Ayumi, Saori has always had a hate for her. No words are passed between them, but a rivalry is forming.
At Nagashino Hospital, Shion is taken to a hospital bed. Her mother and Hani are standing outside to make sure nothing worse happens. Her mother worries that is is suffering too much. Hani tells Shion’s mother that he had lost his father when he was young by a car hit and to ease the pain he played shougi as if it were his life. That his world before is connected to Shion’s.
Hani has went back to the shougi’s association and waiting for him is Saori. Saori asks Hani if she is better than Ayumi, but all Hani says a true shougi player only cares about winning.
Another shougi match begins. The players are Saori and Ayumi. In the beginning of the match, Saori mimics what Ayumi had done in her last battle with Shion. More moves get played as each moves aggravates the opponent. After a while, Saori becomes the victor. This is the first time she has not played like how she did play shougi. She is saisfied for winning.
Later at the Hagashino Hospital is Ayumi, but in his true form which is a guy. He pays off some of the bill for his mother. Shion comes out of her room to get nourishment, but really all she is buying is melon bread, different kinds too. Her mother comes to tell her that she shouldn’t be eating too much sweets and will instead cook up broccoli. As her mother is buying one melon bread, Shion looks aorund and sees Ayumi.
Shion’s foster parents have plan to take Shion to go to the Totsugawa hot springs to relax and also to visit her brother’s, Yoshitarou’s, grave. A suprising newspaper article is bothering Saori about a HOT love affair between her and Hani. Hani isn’t bother by it and Ayumi thinks that it suits Saori well.
Saori and Ayumi are getting study lessons form Hani by having a two against one on two boards. They both lose. Hani then tells them that “True shougi determines the strongest person of all.” In the sidelines is another man planning to do something that will cause trouble for everyone.
[Impression]
A happy episodes where nothing goes wrong except for Shion is still sick. No stalker today, trying not to get caught by the cops, huh? Another mysterious person is still unknown. Who is he? Of course, Saori has the hots for Hani even though she disagrees 100% about the newspaper article. MELON BREAD!!
