Everyone's in hysterics, wondering what's going on. They're waiting for grandma to come back from the war, but they don't know where she's been or what happened to the girl from the memori. They wonder if it's the same girl they saw at the end of the previous chapter, or if it was just a coincidence that they saw each other at the same time. They can't figure out why they haven't seen each other yet, and they're worried that it might be because they've been apart for so long. Finally, they figure out that the girl isn't there, and that she and keitaro have been separated for a long time. It's time for the welcome party, and everyone's happy to see them again. Narusegawa tells everyone that he's exhausted from all the traveling. He's glad to be back in Japan, and he tells everyone to chill out and catch up on the news. He also tells them that he thinks grandma said something about a "chanp" or a "smoop" over the phone, but he doesn't say what it was. He says that it was probably "somechanp thing" , but that he didn't really know what that was until he saw it on the phone. He thinks it was something about shimomu , which is a Japanese word for "something to give" . He then tells everyone about the girl, who's wearing a kimono, and wonders why she is even there. She's not from Japan, he says, and she'