Everybody Loves Chocolate

The eleventh chapter of the 2001 series runs across two halves, opening on Valentine's Day and closing on final exams. Tohru's habit of giving spills into trouble when her chocolate spending leaves her short on money. A peculiar story told near the end draws pointed parallels between a doomed, endlessly giving traveler and Tohru herself.

Uo and Hana are let down when Yuki is not swamped by the chocolate they crammed into his locker. Kyo bolts from a classmate's gift only to collide with Kagura waiting at the gate. At Shigure's house he keeps rejecting Kagura's chocolate, insisting he hates the sweet, though he finally accepts hers so he can also take Tohru's. Later, exams pass and a rumor spreads that Hana is a psychic, until it comes out she landed in remedial lessons. Momiji visits to invite Tohru to the hot springs for White Day, and the household realizes she skipped her class dues after spending everything on chocolate. Momiji then recounts a tale about the world's most foolish traveler, a man stripped of everything who lets goblins devour him and dies smiling over a scrap of paper reading fool. The others see Tohru in the story, and Kyo resolves to join the hot springs trip.

This installment gathers the fifteenth through seventeenth chapters of the manga. The Valentine and White Day material would later be split across two separate episodes in the 2019 retelling. The traveler's fable serves as the episode's emotional core, casting Tohru's boundless giving in a worried light that the Sohma household quietly registers.