Chapter 2

The chapter opens by bringing Izumi Miyamura and Kyouko Hori together at her home, where he grumbles that the coming swimming lessons will expose what he keeps hidden. Mid-cooking, Hori is so startled by the tattoos covering his body that she loses her grip on the whisk. At school the sweltering heat has her classmates puzzling over why Miyamura never swaps his winter uniform for something lighter, and they assume he chills easily, though Hori alone knows the real reason and quietly pities him. A friend brings up a newly opened ice cream shop and invites both her and Yuki Yoshikawa, a place Hori had no idea existed.

Drenched in sweat, Miyamura recalls that Hori meant to visit the parlor, then stumbles onto Souta being picked on. The boy rushes over and proudly introduces Miyamura as his big brother to Yuuna Okuyama. Miyamura walks Souta home and fills Hori in, having also picked up a book and several other things for the child along the way. Assuming she went shopping rather than out with friends, he asks about it, and Hori brushes it aside, saying chores at home come first. She thanks him for minding Souta, noting how rare it is for the boy to warm to anyone given how seldom their parents are around.

Once she sits down, Hori asks after her drink, and since Miyamura bought none for her, he simply hands over his own. She gulps it, loudly blurts out that it is a latte, and hurries off to change, only to crumple onto her floor flustered over the accidental indirect kiss, while Miyamura puzzles over her dislike of the drink. Later she drifts past the new shop, ducks out of sight when Yuki calls to her, and feels a pang of loneliness at missing time with friends. Back home, Miyamura surprises her with a present, telling her he can see how hard she works. The chapter closes on Hori happily turning the display ring over in her hands as Souta complains about being hungry.

Hori discovers the full extent of Miyamura's tattoos and finally understands why he refuses to change out of his winter uniform. Souta publicly claims Miyamura as his older brother in front of Yuuna Okuyama, and Miyamura's quiet habit of buying things for the boy comes to light. An unintended indirect kiss passes between the leads over a shared latte, and the installment ends with Miyamura giving Hori a gift in recognition of her constant work at home.

Titled Page 2, this is the second chapter of Horimiya, written by HERO and drawn by Daisuke Hagiwara. It ran as Issue #12 of 2011 and was later gathered into the first collected volume, carrying a release date of November 18, 2011. The chapter follows Chapter 1 and leads into Chapter 3, and its featured cast includes Kyouko Hori, Izumi Miyamura, Yuki Yoshikawa, Yuuna Okuyama, and Souta Hori.