Ast paints his body with new colors. He tells Ruri that his mother will kill him if he marries into a "family of warriors" . Ruri tells him that he's marrying into "a family of warriors," and he asks her what her mother's opinion is on that. She says that her husband's family picked him for him to marry, and that she's the one who chooses the one she'll marry. Ast asks Ruri if something happened to him lately, and she says that he just wants to go out with either Asuka or Ruri. He's been avoiding her like the plague, and Ruri says that she keeps thinking about how he'll "bare herself to" asuka someday. She's so cute, he says, but he keeps thinking of how she will bare herself to her someday, and he gets so angry that he tells her to shut up and go back to work.