A few days after transferring in, Hotaru and the others play a game in which they try to knock each other's rulers off a table. Later, Hotaru gets lost while walking her dog Pechi, but manages to get pointed back towards home thanks to Pechi's scent. Afterwards, Hotaru goes with Komari to watch the stars together, but run into trouble when their flashlight runs out of battery before they head back. Komari, viewing herself as the older one, takes the initiative of finding their way back, and thanks to a wayward bottle cap Komari dropped earlier, they soon manage to make their way back home. The next day, Hotaru is shown drawing pictures of Komari in class.