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Episode Title:
The Dozing Forest.Episode Description:
As the girls take a bath together at night, they each reflect on their own troubles, sighing. Itsuki, in the men's bath next door, lets a chick servant pass them a ladder lottery to pick a slip for a little game at night, hoping to cheer them up. The three girls wake up in a thick dark forest surrounded by glowing pumpkins, each wearing strange and different clothes. Koharu has on a European medieval dress with puffed sleeves, Mikoto a white pink ballgown with ribbons, and Nanami a red hooded gown with frills. Itsuki's voice alerts them to being in a dream world of his creation using his abilities, with them as the fairytale princesses Snow White, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood respectively. To get out of the dream, each of them must find their important person and a "happily ever after". Each of their tales takes a twist though. In Snow White, Koharu is immediately met by Masamune claiming to be the prince, inviting her to hold their wedding back at the castle at once but she runs away on a whim, coming across first the seven dwarves-chicks and finally Kakeru posing as the poisoned apple. Kakeru hates himself for causing harm to others as a poison, deciding to live along, but Koharu embraces him and they share a kiss. In Cinderella, Itsuki steals Mikoto's shoe and her search for it leads her to Sakuya, the prince. Remembering how he promised to die protecting a girl he loves, she begs him not to die but inevitably sees Itsuki as Sakuya instead. In Little Red Riding Hood, Ron shows up as the hunter and Heishi the granny for Nanami, who runs off trying to find and kill the wolf, whom she encounters is Akito. Two Akitos appear, one embodying the hatred for Nanami and the other the normal, gruff but lovable wolf he is, and after a confrontation the fake one disappears. Returning to reality, the three girls wake up, finally realising their own feelings.
