Volume 6

Synopsis of Volume 6, Part 1

Midori, waiting outside Akira's apartment after 1 a.m., learns that he moved out that morning. The next day, she comes down with a bad cold and a fever. Mamirin tells her over the phone that Akira has apparently taken an extended leave from school, and Midori rushes to school despite her mother's protests. All the members of the student body council are concerned. Bunta and Jimmy recall Akira's asking Adachi-sensei how long a student could miss school without having to repeat a grade (three months), and quitting all his part-time jobs. Only Seven isn't worried, reasoning that Akira should be back in three months. But the problem is, where did Akira go? Takigawa Man asks Midori if she has Hiroko's telephone number. Midori remembers the good times she had with Akira and Hiroko...

...and wakes up in the hospital, surrounded by her mother, Mamirin, and Hiroko (and Nurse Yoshizumi). Hiroko shows Midori a letter she received that morning:

To Hiroko
I'm leaving Japan for a little while to go look for Masashi. Be a good girl.
--Akira
Ken visits Midori at her house. She pretends to be asleep until he tickles her foot. They go outside, and he tells her three months will pass quickly if she cheers up. He suggests that they go out together, saying he won't try to kiss her anymore. They part on friendly terms.

When Midori returns home, Maki-chan is waiting for her. Maki-chan thinks Akira went to Paris. She and Masashi have a good friend there who'll help Akira and keep her updated. Maki-chan wishes she could go look for Akira, but this is her first year as a homeroom teacher. She is about to leave, but she lets the bus go on without her in order to tell Midori that Akira said he wanted to make up with Midori and give their relationship one more try.

Synopsis of Volume 6, Part 2

(Flashback) Maki-chan and Akira are at a shrine on New Year's Day. Akira says he was hoping Midori would still be waiting for him at the station on Christmas Eve. After that, everything he said to her would sound like a lie or an excuse, so there was nothing they could do but break up, but when she smiled at him and said "Let's just be friends," he wished they could get back together again.

The junior-class student body council members are rehearsing their play, but Seven and Shino can't stop arguing. Midori shows up with some treats for them. She watches them rehearse, and recalls her conversation with Maki-chan. (It's probably important; I'll translate their conversation later.) Mamirin shows up at the rehearsal, too. Midori leaves to have lunch with Hiroko. Mamirin goes out to buy box lunches (from Baito Yazawa!) for the underclassmen and meets Ken on the way back. They get to know each other a little better. Back at the auditorium, Mamirin sees Mako's bear pendant and has a flash of inspiration.

Meanwhile, Midori can't help crying when she sees the stuffed toys she and Akira gave Hiroko for her birthday. Hiroko tells her she has to cheer up or else her parents and friends will start to feel sad, too. Midori is impressed by Hiroko's wisdom and thinks, "You're just like a real angel."

Mamirin, crawling through the bushes on campus, enlists Bunta's help in looking for Midori's angel-wings pendant.

After dropping off Hiroko at her piano lesson, Hiroko's mother tells Midori she's wanted to thank her for a long time.

It's raining, and Mamirin, Takigawa, and Bunta are getting discouraged. They look at a program of the Athletic Meet, and Takigawa remembers that Midori won the obstacle course. He asks Mamirin where the net was put away, and she answers, "The equipment shed!"

Mrs. Shibata tells Midori about the rainy day she took Hiroko and left home. She had meant to send for Akira after things had settled down, but he caught her as she was leaving, and she panicked and ran away from him. She realized that in that one moment, she made an everlasting wound on her son's heart. Midori realizes that she reopened that wound when she ran away from Akira at the rugby game. Akira's mother continues, saying that afterwards, Akira began to act up, but in the past two years, he's returned to the nice boy he used to be, and she'd like to thank Midori for it. Midori thinks, "I'm sorry, Akira, come back and we can start all over again. I'm no angel, but for you, I'll become an angel."

Mamirin, Takigawa Man, and Bunta find Midori's necklace dangling from the net. Bunta leaves to change and get something to eat. Mamirin hopes Akira comes back soon so Midori can be happy. Takigawa Man kisses her.

Synopsis of Volume 6, Part 3

Akira is in Paris with Watase-san, the friend Maki-chan mentioned, who runs a cafe.

At Midori's house, Takigawa Man finally tells Mamirin he loves her. Midori is pleased to see Bunta and Mako getting along well, but Shino, practicing her lines along, hopes to make up with Takigawa Man. At rehearsal, Seven just can't do the kiss scene. Jimmy teases him about having a crush on Shino, and Seven replies, "Who'd want an ugly girl like her?" Takigawa Man considers the best way of telling Shino that it's all over between them. Midori can't find Mamirin. Simultaneously, Bunta rushes up to Midori and Seven and _____ confront Shino and Mako with the same juicy bit of gossip--one of the basketball players saw Takigawa Man and Mamirin kissing in the equipment shed the day before.

Synopsis of Volume 6, Part 4

As their friends desperately try to find them, Shino and Mamirin face off on the beach. Afterwards, Takigawa Man and Mamirin agree not to let what people say about them at school bother them, and Seven makes a gesture of kindess to Shino. (Haruka and Dolphin from "Marine Blue Kaze ni Dakarete" make a cameo appearance.) Meanwhile, in Paris, Akira drops his photograph of Masashi and stoops to pick it up in front of an oncoming car...

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