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Kosuda is very much your average guy. He’s not popular, he keeps to himself, and it’s quickly acknowledged that he’s also a virgin. With Yamada wanting her first hurdle to be over and done with as soon as possible, it isn’t long before she’s cornered Kosuda in a room and is flashing her bra at him in a bid he’ll man up and start having sex with her. The only complications are that Kosuda is completely clueless as to what Yamada wants from him and Yamada has no idea what to do next as she’s convinced all guys are horny sex machines always ready to pounce with this sort of action. It’s both a hilarious and yet very real feeling as the pair awkwardly try to figure each other out and finally understand what they want.
Akane tells Yamada she’s glad Takuma put an end to things that way rather than lie to her. It’s her hope that should he look back on the memory of her, it’s of her smiling, not crying and wailing, making him think “she was a great girl” and “I shouldn’t have let her go.”
The next morning Yamada heads off to school without sleep, something he assures Yamada he’s done before. She’s fine for him to go, but hopes he’ll take care and let her know if he feels sick. No doubt she’ll want to be the one to nurse him should he fall ill; such is her transactional way of showing affection and demonstrating her worth.
But Yamada carefully considers the question and doesn’t let her just dismiss it. He tells her it would be an honor to date her, but reveals that the main reason he hadn’t given it much thought is that he considered her an “unattainable prize”.
That night, Akane and Yamada go to an izakaya, though only Akane drinks beer to drown her sorrows. Her victory was a hollow one; she may have shown up her ex, but at the end of the day he has a real girlfriend and she has…this guy, who doesn’t understand and has no interest in romance. That said, he’s not so cold as to abandon her while she’s clearly going through it.
