WWW.Working!!

Oh, Yuuta. You reek of poverty again.

I'm curious.

Does your whole presence radiate poverty in proportion to lack of decent food?

I don't care for poor people.

Oh, she stumbled over the word.

What?

Oh, nothing.

Something strange is happening with Kamakura.

But what does it mean?

An omen of a natural disaster?

- Higashida! - Yes?

Go out with me.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

I just thought maybe the end of the world is nigh.

FUNNY STORY

Miyakoshi...

Has something happened to your brain after ingesting your own chocolate?

No, no.

I just regret making you eat that stuff every time.

Does she really regret it?

And that old man said if we have love, my cooking will get better, right?

If love blossoms between you two,

her cooking will probably become delicious.

Love her with all your heart!

In short, if we go out, I'll get good at cooking, right?

You'll feel safer that way too, Higashida.

There's no other choice, so let's start dating!

I love you, darling!

I don't know where to start.

Don't call me "darling"!

Come on, it even said in that child-rearing manual

that milk should be at body temperature. Can't you even read?

What, you call this baby food?

Not every food should be soft.

When it comes to eating, put yourself in my place.

And I want new clothes!

Only buying inexpensive items because I'm going to get big soon is ridiculous.

New and perfectly fitting items! That's a cardinal rule!

Knock it off.

For someone who's off her game, you're acting the same as usual.

It's all Yuuta's fault!

I think Hime is going to fall asleep.

I'll get a blanket.

Watch her.

Pick you up?

She gave me an order.

Well, she is a baby.

SOMETHING'S LACKING

Thanks.

SATISFIED

Oh. I guess her mother is best.

Well, I don't blame you for being anxious about dating me, Higashida.

It's not anxiety. I just don't want to.

After all, I'm sure you've never had a girlfriend before.

And I've never had a boyfriend!

I swear I'll sew your mouth shut!

I hate studying, but I gotta do it.

Let's learn how we're supposed to go out.

I'll bring a teacher over.

Teacher?

Why you of all people?

What's this about?

Actually, we've decided to start dating.

No, we haven't!

Congratulations.

Kisaki, tell us as a teacher how we can have a high school romance.

I've never had a romance like that.

Teacher...

All right then, say whatever comes to mind!

To be honest, I don't care what you two do with each other...

...but, um...

he should walk you to work every day.

Okay.

And treat you.

Okay!

And take you to interesting places.

Dating someone is great!

No way!

With all those freebies, no wonder everybody wants to date someone!

There's a lot more to it, but you two can explore on your own.

Higashida! Dating is awesome!

Let's go out!

Miyakoshi...

I'm not a fun guy, and I don't have any money.

Nor do I have any reason to take it that far with you.

Why are you so angry?

Fine. I'll drop it for today.

For today?

Is she going to ask me out every time I work here?

I'm gonna have to go through this again and again?

What a pain in the butt!

Even when I tell her straight out, it doesn't get through.

She only learns her lesson after a painful experience.

Instead of understanding from a half-assed explanation...

It'll be faster if we do go out,

I prove to her that our personalities are a bad match,

and then we break up!

Let's put our faith in a bright future and go out, Miyakoshi.

Yay!

So Miyakoshi and I are dating now.

I-I don't understand it, but my heart is suddenly broken.

So this is what it's like?

But at least now I can finally give up.

C-Congratu—

But we're going to break up soon.

You're going to break up?

I don't want you to get the wrong idea,

but we're not going out because of mutual love.

Miyakoshi kept bugging me about going out,

and it felt like she'd keep hounding me about it even if I turned her down.

Well, I figured she'd learn her lesson if we tried it once.

So it's not as if I like Miyakoshi or hate her.

When she gets fed up, we'll break up on the spot.

Miyakoshi will, that is.

Higashida!

Higashida, what happened to you?

What? Nothing happened.

I'm as cool and calm as always.

You can't be like always!

Miyakoshi is serious about you! That's why she asked you out!

Saying she bugged you or you don't like her

or you'll break up when she gets fed up with you, that's being irresponsible!

You should really think about Miyakoshi's feelings more!

Naga is really sticking up for Hana-hana.

Is that for Hana-hana's sake?

Or for her own sake, since she wants to put an end to her crush on him?

I don't know the answer myself!

I explained that I don't want her to think

that I'm not going out with Miyakoshi because I like her...

but I still got another lecture from Nagata.

Although if it seems I'm really fond of her,

then she'll feel responsible for her own cooking.

She'll be desperate to feed me delicious food.

Higashida!

I see.

I'm hungry from working so hard,

so when you walk me home later, treat me to something!

Or do I?

We're dating, and you take me to an arcade?

You said you wanted to go somewhere, right, Miyakoshi?

Hey! I see something!

If you damage this machine, it drops a stuffed animal?

SIDE PUNCH

STRAIGHT-ON PUNCH

ADD A SPIN

It's impossible to do it with three blows!

Blows?

Dammit! Why can't I get this stuffed animal?

Higashida!

Just give up on it already.

But it's frustrating!

It's easier to get it by pushing instead of picking it up.

See?

Here.

Don't get it yourself, stupid!

By the way, Miyakoshi, are you able to talk to Saiki now?

Not yet.

Even though you're the floor chief?

Yanagiba...

Wh-What's wrong?

I went somewhere.

You went somewhere? Where? Down south?

Not school?

Okinawa.

Okinawa?

- A commodity exhibition. - A commodity exhibition?

I'll give you a souvenir, Naga of the complicated mental state.

Okinawan Biscuits

Th-Thank you.

Damn that Higashida!

This is the day I make myself clear to Saiki!

I have to find the right opportunity.

What's he doing?

Looks like we're low on napkins.

He's an alien!

Higashida, emergency! Saiki's an alien!

What, Miyakoshi?

Sorry to rain on your emergency,

but in a broad sense, you're an alien, too.

What?

Are you serious? Higashida, are you serious?

I'm serious.

This is messed up! It's totally messed up!

It is totally messed up, Miyakoshi.

Your brain.

You both live in the same universe, so open up to Saiki already.

There. It's Saiki.

We are aliens.

Miyakoshi! That was Japanese just now!

You're behind this, Kisaki. You had Saiki say that weird line.

Miyakoshi should also have at least one person here she wants to avoid.

Maybe you're right, but...

Fine, when I get promoted to a higher position than Miyakoshi,

I'll order her to get along with Saiki.

That's your secret ambition?

Saiki, go.

Okay!

You should go too, Kisaki.

Man, when I watch Saiki at work, I can't believe he's 20 like us.