Aoi frets about what to cook the royal couple. She finds Byakuya feeding kitten Ayakashi and cooks him breakfast. He tells her the royal couple went on dates at western restaurants, so Aoi decides to buy beef stew ingredients from the foreign delicacy market. Ginji realises Byakuya is acting like he used to when Shiro was bullying him. Odanna tries to stop her going shopping without him since he must attend a meeting with the other rulers of the Hidden Realm...