The Secret Art of Being Attractive

A classmate corners a startled Okarun, eager to learn how someone like him stays close to Momo and Aira. Okarun denies any such appeal, but Momo barges in announcing she has located his other kintama, shocking the classmate and making Okarun shush her. Momo apologizes for the interruption and asks if the two are friends, and the classmate, Kinta Sakata, claims they are, pleasing her. Wanting privacy, Okarun proposes they continue outside, while Kinta absorbs the wrong lesson, deciding crude talk about a kintama must be the trick to popularity. The class rep then asks Momo to stop wandering between classrooms and disturbing students. Momo agrees, but the rep, convinced Momo is bossing Okarun around, tells him he need not obey her, igniting an argument that ends with Kinta lobbing a vulgar joke based on his new theory.

Later, Momo and Okarun reach the apartment block where the kintama supposedly hides. Puzzling over the rep's outburst, Okarun notes that nobody had ever spoken to him in class before, which made him happy, and is floored when Momo says it is because he has grown popular. She laughs and tells him to just own it. Kinta, meanwhile, tails them to study how they interact, but gives himself away when his foot strikes a paint can. As he tries to look innocent, the ghost lifts him and flings him toward Momo, and Kinta excitedly imagines locking lips with her. Okarun pulls Momo clear and spots his kintama floating where Kinta had been. He reaches for it with Momo's help, and on contact realizes a physical body lies within the orb.

Kinta Sakata confronts Okarun, demanding the secret behind his closeness to Momo and Aira. Class rep Rin Sawaki orders Momo out for repeatedly disrupting the room, and during their standoff Kinta jumps in with a crude line, sure that dirty talk fueled Okarun's popularity.

Momo and Okarun head to the apartment building where the orb was seen, and she tells him he has become cool. Kinta stalks them, is grabbed by the ghost, and hurled their way. After failing to pin the specter, Okarun reports that it possesses a physical body.

The chapter belongs to the Kaiju Arc of the Kintama Hunt Saga and debuts classmate Kinta Sakata. Printed in Volume 8, it was adapted across the tail of anime Episode 21 and into Episode 22.