Hmmm . . . maybe there was a break in the series last week after all.
This week’s episode is: …Hotaru’s promise.
The kids in the kindergarten want Kobato to read them a story about fireflies. Unfortunately, Kobato isn’t too good at this. She takes the book with her to practice (with Sayaka’s approval). When Kobato practices in the park, an older gentleman tells her not to read the book. All is not well at the Kindergaton either. It is apparently in debt and Sayaka keeps getting harassing phone calls. The next day things are even worse. When Kobato gets there, there are some thugs who want payment. Fujimoto harasses them back and even Ioryogi helps, but it’s still three to one. Sayaka asks them to leave and come back when the children aren’t there but the thugs refuse. Kobato then intervenes and she refuses to back down. This unnerves the thugs. Then one of the kids start saying how the police are coming. The thugs retreat, though it ends up not being true^^; Still, this is a problem that isn’t going to go away. I wonder what the full background on the debt is. If Kobato could help with it, that would surely help fill her bottle.
Meanwhile, Kobato runs into the old man again but he is still not exactly friendly. It turns out Fujimoto lives at the same apartments Kobato does. When she asks him about he old man, he says the old man is the author of the firefly book, but that is all he knows. Ioryogi says something must have happened. Kobato does tons of research on fireflies and invites the old man to go see them with her. He actually shows up. It turns out his love did the illustrations for the firefly book. She wanted to take him to see them but he was too busy. She got in an accident and they never went. However, Kobato somehow finds the very area that was the inspiration for the illustrations. Yep, the old man is healed:)
