That Note

At the Ayase home, Seiko grills food for Momo and her friends, while Momo pesters her grandmother by wanting to hug and sniff her. Over the meal, Momo and Okarun worry about Bamora being apart from her mother, and Okarun suggests asking Ludris for help reaching Sumer. Rokuro then turns up out of nowhere to thank Momo for wiping out the Serpo data the aliens had stolen. Stunned that he lives, Momo hears from Mantisian that the nanoskin brought him back. Relieved, she demands the Serpo quit targeting her group, but Rokuro slips away without answering, irritating her.

When Seiko mentions the curry is gone, Momo flashes back to the curry and the note reading love ya that she left Okarun. Mortified, she begs Seiko to stop saying curry and to go buy more. Walking to the market, Momo frets over what to do, puzzled that Okarun seems unbothered. Okarun, meanwhile, silently wonders whether the note meant friendly or romantic love, using Jiji as a yardstick. As both stew over it, Kinta mistakes Momo's blushing for interest in him. Then Momo, Aira, and Bamora freeze at a distant figure that looks like Reiko Kashima.

Seiko, along with Chiquitita and Turbo Granny, shares the meal with the Family. Brought back to life by the nanoskin Mantisian gave him, Rokuro shows up to express gratitude to Momo. She recalls the love letter meant for Okarun and scrambles to bury the memory.

On the curry run, Momo agonizes over whether Okarun recalls the note, while he debates whether she wrote it as a friend or as something more. Up the road, the group spots Reiko Kashima.

Stretching nineteen pages, That Note arrived August 29, 2023, part of Volume 14 in the Space Globalists Arc and Kintama Hunt Saga. The chapter brings in Momo Ayase and Okarun beside Seiko Ayase, Aira Shiratori, Kinta Sakata, Bamora, Jiji, Turbo Granny, Mantisian, Chiquitita, Rokuro Serpo, Ludris, and Reiko Kashima.