After viewing some blurred images that Taiga took of Yūsaku, Ryūji offers to take pictures of him for Taiga. During a school assembly, Taiga speaks out to the student council president Sumire Kano for treating the students like an army, but is stopped by Yūsaku, causing her to become both happy and depressed. Minori and Yūsaku suggest Ryūji and Taiga to join them for lunch, which causes a tense moment between the latter two. Both Yūsaku and Minori are summoned to softball practice, during which Ryūji manages to take several photos of Yūsaku. Taiga has a hard time choosing which of the photos should be laminated, and she gives all of them to Ryūji. When Yūsaku discovers Ryūji looking over the photos, Yūsaku shows Ryūji a photo of Taiga in his handbook, revealing that she turned him down after he confessed to her a year ago. Taiga later recounts this to Ryūji, telling him that she began to develop feelings for Yūsaku ever since then.