I Mean... You Know, Right?

Momiji returns looking every bit the young man, and classmates note how much he has outgrown his boyish self while clinging to the same bunny backpack and love of ice cream. Beneath the growth spurt, though, a far larger shift is coming: the bond that ties him to Akito is about to snap, leaving him freer and lonelier than he has ever felt.

Several couples and pairs open the episode with quiet questions about the future. Ayame asks Mine whether she would seek happiness elsewhere if his curse never lifted; Mayu wonders aloud if Hatori wants to travel; Yuki weighs whether to tell Machi that he is not an ordinary human; and Shigure worries to Akito that life is slipping past her. At school, girls marvel at how Momiji has grown, and Haru remarks that he and Tohru almost read as a couple. Hatori urges Shigure to treat Akito more gently, but Shigure refuses to playact kindness he does not feel.

Visiting Shigure's house, Momiji teases Kyo that he may one day propose to Tohru if Kyo keeps hiding his feelings. That night Akito dreams of her father naming her the god of the zodiac, then wakes fearing another bond will break as Haru's did. She finds Momiji weeping and begs him not to leave. He realizes his curse has shattered, sees her as pitiful, and sends her away, promising to talk the next day.

The following morning Momiji tells Kyo on the roof that his curse is broken, then covers it by claiming he is only joking. When he confronts Akito directly, she strikes him and calls him a monster no one will accept. Momiji confesses he has never felt so free nor so alone, then goes to visit his mother, sharing a warm and ordinary moment with her.

The title is lifted from one of Momiji's own lines. Despite listing four chapters, the episode largely adapts only the closing quarter of chapter 115, folding in material from chapters 110, 111, 116, and 128 for its montage-style opening. Ayame and Mine's scene, Mayuko and Hatori's exchange, and a young Shigure watching a flower bloom were all built for the anime, and the red cord used to picture the curse fraying is another added visual. Because the adaptation skips several chapters, Isuzu remains hospitalized on screen even though she is not by this point in the manga.