After the rainy night in Akihito’s apartment, their feelings finally line up. Sae starts looking forward to something new for both of them: a first trip to Okinawa, planned like a real couple’s vacation instead of another hotel escape.
Then reality gets in the way. Akihito is swamped. Days pass without a proper meeting. Messages miss each other. Plans stall. The more Sae waits, the more the old fear comes back — that what they confessed was only heat, and that Akihito’s busy life will swallow the relationship before it can become something steady.
Sae, who has never dated anyone, does not know how to sit with that uncertainty. He keeps thinking about Akihito, then doubting the connection they just made. The episode is quiet and tense: not a breakup fight, but the first test of whether “we finally understand each other” can survive ordinary distance.
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