First Love

Newly enrolled at Momo's school, Jiji turns his classroom introduction into open flirting with a girl seated nearby, then lands in the desk next to Momo, whom he proceeds to pester. Her two companions, Kei and Miko, end up chatting with the newcomer, and Jiji cheerfully announces that he and Momo share a home and are practically a couple. The exaggeration earns him a strangling from a mortified Momo.

Off on his own, Okarun stews over the idea that Momo might drift away from him should she rekindle things with her childhood crush. He buries the worry by sneaking off to lift weights during the lunch break, only to be ambushed by Momo herself, who shows up determined to keep a repeat of the earlier Aira trouble from happening. Catching him mid set, she volunteers to feed him, leaving Okarun stunned. He nearly accepts before Jiji cuts in with a gift of her favorite yogurt, which delights her. Deflated by their easy rapport, Okarun resolves to keep his distance for her sake.

His retreat is interrupted when an anatomical model comes sprinting straight at him out of nowhere. He shouts a warning to Momo, who readies her powers, but Jiji yanks her clear before the doll can strike. As it leaps overhead, Momo spots a gleaming sphere fixed to its body and assumes it is Okarun's missing kintama. She locks onto the figure with her abilities, gets dragged along in its wake with Jiji still clinging to her, and sends Okarun racing after them.

Jiji joins Momo's class and immediately plays the charmer, falsely claiming a romance with her until Kei insists she belongs to Okarun. Rattled by jealousy, Okarun returns to his workout routine, but abandons Momo's offer to feed him once Jiji arrives, choosing to step back from her entirely. A running anatomical doll then shoves the trio aside, and Momo, convinced the shiny orb in its groin is the missing testicle, latches onto it with her power and is hauled off alongside Jiji.

The installment belongs to the Cursed House Arc within the Kintama Hunt Saga and runs nineteen pages. It was published on October 19, 2021, collected in Volume 4, and adapted as part of Episode 11. The chapter introduces the doll later named Taro and seeds Okarun's growing rivalry with Jiji.