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- It's gotten quite cold out now.
- At times like this...
- Speed walk!
- Oh, Master!
- Master!
- Good morning!
- G-Good
- morning!
- You're a little different today, Master.
- I am.
- I'm super-strong Bocchi!
- Super-strong Master?!
- What do you do to become that?
- Well, today we have closing ceremonies for second semester.
- It happens at closing ceremonies?!
- Master?
- I couldn't make any friends this semester, unlike first semester.
- But...
- Since I'm sure I've grown stronger than I was in first semester,
- I've become super-strong Bocchi!
- Master!
- I-I'm going to become super-strong Sotoka, also!
- Cold!
- Hm?
- What?
- 田 No One 田 Said That 田 Before
- Master.
- What is it?
- I think you'll gain confidence if you show Nako and the others
- how you're stronger than usual.
- Right.
- Nako-chan.
- Hm?
- Do you notice anything different about me today?
- Huh?! Why are you suddenly asking me such a girly question?
- Something about me is stronger than usual today!
- Oh, that wasn't what she meant.
- Your hint is feet!
- Feet?
- Hm...
- Oh, you're standing on your heels!
- I'm super-strong Bocchi.
- And how are you strong?
- Huh?!
- Uh, hey...
- It didn't go well with Nako-chan, so...
- Aru-chan.
- Today, I ate natto for breakfast,
- but I added the mustard, which I never do!
- You never add the mustard?
- Yeah.
- But today I added a little.
- I see.
- I'm the type that always adds all the mustard,
- so I guess I'll try leaving it out next time.
- All?!
- Aru-chan, you're mature.
- I really am weak.
- Huh? Huh?!
- Hey, Bocchi!
- Aru.
- Wh-What?
- Hey, Sotoka?
- Come with me!
- What? So that's what's going on.
- We need to think about how we can get Master to realize she's the strongest.
- She's not the strongest, though.
- Yeah.
- I wish we could get her to realize that there's nothing wrong,
- even if she's not making many more friends.
- Unfortunately, I think that'll be impossible to do by the end of the day.
- Who are you—
- Not me, I suppose.
- Do you think she would realize it if I stopped being her apprentice?
- Huh?
- Why would you do that?
- If I become her friend, instead of her apprentice,
- then Master will have made a friend during the second semester.
- But do you think she'd understand that she's strong?
- Well...
- I think Bocchi would be happy regardless of being weak or strong.
- But I think Master might only see me as her apprentice!
- Is being her apprentice that important?
- It probably is to Sotoka.
- Ah, what do I do?!
- Thinking about it a bit more,
- befriending everyone in class
- is unreasonable, isn't it?
- But maybe she thinks she can't change if she doesn't go that far?
- Was Bocchi ever that bad?
- Thinking back to how she first was,
- I suppose she has grown much stronger.
- So that was how I failed to tell Master anything before winter break started.
- Then it was Christmas...
- And now it's New Year's.
- Figures there are fewer people around after the first three days of the year.
- There are lots of stalls here.
- I wonder where they go the rest of the time?
- Hey, why don't we each buy different things and share them?
- Nice idea!
- You can actually do that?
- Well, I'm buying candied apples, then.
- I just said to buy things to share!
- I'll get goldfish!
- Goldfish aren't sushi!
- There's nothing there, yet cotton keeps coming out!
- A ninja art?
- Ninja!
- Well? We should be able to share a bit of thi—
- When paying a visit, you bow twice, clap twice, then bow once...
- Or so I've heard.
- Wow.
- Well, let's do it!
- Yes!
- Bow twice, clap twice, bow once!
- Bow twice, clap twice, bow once!
- No, you don't say it like some chant.
- Bow twice, clap twice, bow once!
- Kako-chan?
- Wh-Why?
- Well, to pay our New Year's visit.
- I never expected you to recite that chant when you're on our disciplinary committee.
- N-No!
- That's not it!
- Kurai-san.
- Happy New Year.
- Oh!
- Happy New Year to you!
- Happy New Year!
- Help me become a strong person.
- Help me become a perfect person.
- Help me befriend everyone in class and make up with Kai-chan.
- Help me and Master...
- Help me master the ninja arts I'm learning from Master.
- Uh, may good things happen to us.
- What's that?
- Don't you have something you want? Any dreams?
- Not really.
- Nako-chan has a dream, but it's a secret.
- Hey, Bocchi.
- Wow, what is it? What is it?
- I want to know. I want to know. I want to know!
- Tell me!
- Oh, fine. My dream is...
- Your dream is?
- To become the perfect version of myself, I suppose.
- Perfect version of yourself?
- What? That's so silly—
- Wait, that's mine!
- Oh, Kurai-san.
- You're leaving?
- It's not as if I came here with you all,
- and I have plans to meet up with my relatives after this.
- Later.
- Someday...
- I'd like to be friends with Kurai-san.
- Master, um...
- What is it?
- Um, Master. I...
- No, if I...
- Oh.
- It's Onaka-san and Kurie-san.
- I suppose everyone's here because it's New Year's.
- I still haven't given them a proper apology for cooking class.
- Oh, you mean when you got flour everywhere?
- I'll go apologize.
- I think I need to be a little stronger than before!
- That reminds me, Sotoka.
- Whatever happened to being her friend?
- Urk.
- What? You still haven't talked to her?
- I-I'm sorry!
- I said it!
- She's so far away!
- Oh, Hitori-chan. Happy New Year!
- Happy New Year!
- H-Happy!
- Are you here for your first yearly visit, also, Hitori-chan?
- Y-Yes.
- Um...
- U-Um, when we were making pancakes...
- Uh...
- Right.
- Want to go eat some pancakes sometime?
- Huh?
- I do! Let's go right now!
- R-Right now?
- I don't mean today.
- Hitori-chan, I'll contact you later so we can set a date, okay?
- Huh?
- No?
- U-Um, I...
- What, what?
- If you don't mind, could we go together as friends?
- Oh!
- Master...
- Please be my friend!
- Of course!
- I mean, we've already been pancake buddies for a while now.
- Glad to know you.
- You did it.
- Good for you, Master.
- Oh, it's from Kai-chan.
- She's asking whether Bocchi's crying.
- Kai-chan?
- How do you have her contact info?
- We quietly exchanged information back when we saw her during her karaoke.
- I'll tell her Bocchi's incredible.
- Hitori-chan?!
- What's happened to her?
- No way! She passed out?!
- She hasn't fixed that part?
- Hey, Hitori-chan?
- Kai-chan...
- Wait for me.
- Kai-chan?
- Good grief.
- I'm going to take a picture of Bocchi's sleeping face and send it to Kai-chan.
- I—
- What?!
- I...
- I-I, I...
- I got my cotton candy back!
- Incredible!
- She just made friends! Two of them!
- Kai.
- That's not a kimono. It's a jinbei.
- Aren't you cold?
- Yeah, but I'm fine.
- Let's hurry up and pay our respects.
- May Bocchi not cry too much!
- Origami right at the start of the new semester?
- Training never ends, after all.
- Oh, Master.
- Oh, Hitori-chan.
- Morning.
- Morning, Hitori-chan.
- M-M-Morning,
- Peko-chan! Ito-chan!
- Morning!
- Morning, Nako-chan.
- Did you go eat your pancakes?
- Huh?
- Oh, not yet.
- This isn't right.
- This isn't right.
- This isn't right!
- Aru, Aru, Aru, Aru, Aru, Aru!
- Wh-What, what, what, what, what, what?!
- What?!
- There's something not right going on.
- Yeah.
- Why me, also?
- Who cares? You were free anyway, right?
- So?
- Master used "chan" with Onaka-san and Kurie-san when she spoke to them!
- Well, yeah, they are friends now.
- Yet I'm still just "Sotoka-san"!
- Well, that's because you're master and apprentice, right?
- But I've been with Master way longer than those two have!
- It might just be habit at this point.
- Using "san" with you, I mean.
- Have you told her that you want to be friends?
- Is being her apprentice that important?
- Well...
- Master said something to me when we met.
- Sotoka-san.
- Yes?
- I'll do my best, okay?
- So once I've passed everything on, then...
- Then...?
- Will you be my friend?
- She hasn't passed everything on yet,
- so I feel like I shouldn't be saying I want to be her friend.
- That's all pretty complicated.
- But what is "everything"?
- I don't really know that answer myself.
- You don't know?
- Well, then it's hopeless, isn't it?
- Hold on. Hold on.
- This is simply about wanting to be called "Sotoka-chan," right?
- Then this isn't that complicated, is it?
- True.
- It might be easy enough to get her to call you Sotoka-chan after doing so for Peko-chan.
- Really?
- Have you tried chatting with Bocchi?
- Not yet.
- Well, then try saying something.
- Have faith in Bocchi!
- How unfortunate.
- Don't call me unfortunate!
- You're right.
- It's not right that I'm the only one she uses "san" with.
- I'm sure Master feels the same way, also.
- Master!
- Oh, Sotoka-san.
- I go home.
- English?!
- Goodbye, everyone.
- All right, all right!
- I'll do something about this!
- Really?
- You help out, also!
- Bocchi.
- Do you have a moment?
- Aru-chan.
- Um, you doing well?
- Yeah. And you?
- I'm doing well.
- Oh right. How's Mieru-san?
- Mieru?
- O-Oh, my little sister?
- Why is she bringing that up right now?
- Uh, Mieru's gone now.
- Huh?!
- She went somewhere far away, and we'll never see her again.
- But that's ultimately for the best.
- Aru-chan...
- What are you laughing at, Nakosuke?!
- You also, Bocchi?!
- Wait, you're crying?!
- You're making my heart ache!
- What did you come here to do?
- Yeah, I know.
- I know.
- Listen, it's actually about Sotoka-chan.
- Sotoka-san?
- Yeah, so Sotoka-chan wants you to call her "Sotoka-chan."
- You don't want to?
- No, it's just that Sotoka-san's my apprentice, not my friend.
- She's practically a friend already, though.
- You can be a stickler for things like that, huh?
- Sotoka-chan said she wants you to call her that, though.
- So it's fine, right?
- I was really happy when you and Nako-chan called me by my first name.
- So I wanted Sotoka-san to call me by my name one day, also.
- Then that's simple.
- I'll go get Sotoka-chan.
- Aru-chan.
- Thank you.
- Good grief, both Bocchi and Sotoka-chan are troublesome.
- You're the most troublesome one for me.
- Well, we should go as well.
- Huh?
- We wouldn't want any interruptions, after all.
- Sorry for the wait.
- You brought her here?
- Master...
- What's that?!
- Oh, she's forgotten her Japanese, but don't pay it any mind.
- No, you should mind that.
- New...
- New shuriken.
- Great!
- If you like,
- let's make new shuriken together, Sotoka-chan!
- Yeah!
- B-Bocchi-chan.
- That's not English.
- So...
- It's complete.
- It's finished.
- 'Tis finished.
- Incredible.
- Incredible.
- I didn't know there were shuriken like this.
- Like this!
- There're a lot more, also.
- More of them, more... man!
- More to be had.
- So let's gather many kinds of shuriken!
- Gather... forgather.
- Gather them.
- Gather them.
- Gather them, them!
- Could you be any more awkward?!
- So why are we back here again?
- Well, what can we do?
- Sotoka-chan's still worried about it.
- You got her to call you "Sotoka-chan," right?
- But now I can't call her Master anymore.
- Really?
- Why does it matter?
- What's wrong with "Bocchi-chan"?
- But...
- Bocchi said she wants to be your friend once she passes everything down, right?
- Yes.
- She's already passed down all her feelings though,
- and that's what made you want to be friends with Bocchi, right?
- Nako.
- Thank you.
- Nako, Aru, I'm going now.
- I'm going to stop being her apprentice!
- Why are you taking all the good moments?!
- I wonder where everyone went.
- Maybe they all went home and left me behind.
- Master!
- It's super-strong Sotoka!
- Sotoka-chan?
- I'm here to stop being your apprentice.
- Huh?!
- Is it because I'm always weak?
- No way!
- The opposite, in fact!
- Because you're strong, Master!
- Master, you brought a smile to Nako's face when she got failing grades,
- and when Aru tried to go home to change, you managed to get her to come to school.
- After watching you, Master,
- I'd rather be your friend than be a ninja!
- You've passed everything down to me, Master.
- So I'm here to be certified as a master and become your friend.
- Sotoka-chan.
- Please open the shuriken.
- I like you more than I like ninja, Master.
- This is...
- Master.
- Please be my friend.
- First...
- Huh?
- That's the first time anyone's ever asked me to be their friend.
- So that was how Master and I became friends.
- Sotoka-cha...-san.
- B-Bocchi.... Master-san.
- Y-You can just call me "Bocchi."
- S-Same to you, Master-san!
- We're friends now.
- Why are they being so distant now?
- Oh, that's—!
- Yes. I finally finished it.
- Let's try throwing it outside!
- Yes, Master!
- Please wait, Master!
- Master!
- Seems that things have both changed and not changed.
- Well, what does it matter?
- It's obvious that they're good friends.
- 田 Next Episode:
- From 田 Tap-Tap 田 to 田 Print-Print
- Next Episode: "From Tap-Tap to Print-Print."
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