After being completely rejected by Momo and unexpectedly kissed by yuzu, Nino is confused. The desolation of Momo and Yuzu seems to jeopardize In No Hurry’s future. Haruyoshi tells about the past of In No Hurry and reveals her importance in its creation, hoping that this might motivate her to sing.
Yuzu has been the most reasonable and supportive but kissing Nino out of the blue has made us doubt that. After been thinking about being her true friend, kissing her makes it look like an impulsive action. Yuzu tried to conceal his feelings as Nino does not feel the same for him. The kiss shocked her before she could silently run away.
Although Nino still come for practice, avoiding Yuzu but seems almost lost. When yuzu becomes sick and takes a leave from school. She stops ignoring him by taking care of him. Nino tells him that she feels sorry for causing pain to him all this time and has made decision to quit In No Hurry dejecting him and others. Yuzu panics and kiss her quickly thinking she would start screaming or crying. He calms her down by telling her that her voice means a lot to him and she can keeps singing for Momo as it’s those emotions that makes her sing the ways he does. This content Nino and she feels relieved thinking that he is her true friend. Yuzu on the other hand promises himself to be her true friend she could trust and conceal his emotions.
Nino has a good reason to sing now as she is wills to pay back Yuzu, Kuro and Haruyoshi for their generosity and affection. But her voice is not the same as she is having hard time deal with her feelings. Yuzu ask Momo to meet him with an excuse of getting his CDs back. Although, the real reason behind this meet-up is reconciliation and restore his relation with the love interest of Nino. It seems like Momo is concerned about Yuzu but he treats him the same way he treats Nino. He claims in a possessive way that Nino’s voice is only for him and he won’t let her sig for anyone else. Yuzu remains calm. Watching Momo being so obsessed and insecure about his feeling, he can’t bear to let him keep Alice’s voice for himself.
Meanwhile, Haruyoshi takes Nino to some other part of the school and reveals how band started. Yuzu stayed in Miou’s, Haruyoshi’s and Kuro’s room in the hospital when those three were friends. When they find out about his passion for music, they insisted on getting back to it much to his mother anger. With help of Haruyoshi Yuzu could go out for short time and that is the time when she met him for the time. It was her voice that made him feel that passion for music again. This makes Nino realize that this band has been created for a reason and how important is she for In No Hurry.
Momo has done everything he could to be distant and abusive. Whereas, Kuze describe his deeds to us. Momo can’t let Nino to get involved in the music he is desperately composing exonerate his dept. But he is unable to make good music as his only inspiration is not with her now. He loves her to the extent that he can’t help but give her cold shoulder. He jokes about In No Hurry when he meets her in school and tells her that it has no future. On which Nino reprimands and coldly tells him that she can’t even breathe without Yuzu’s music. Momo is shattered to hear that but still keeps provoking her. As she leaves angrily, He holds her arm being afraid of watching her leave but quickly recovers from it and let her know that she is free to go anywhere she is willing to go and she goes unwillingly.
In this volume we learned that In No Hurry is not only because Nino wants Yuzu to be in the band but its existence is outcome of all members bonding which include Yuzu, Haruyoshi, Kuro Nino, and even Miou. The power of their friendship can be determine by the fact that Haruyoshi and Kuro supported Yuzu in his ‘selfish’ motive and that’s what makes their bond stronger and unites them. Nino has been replaced with Miou by Haruyoshi as he accepts her because she will no longer be singing for Momo but for them.
This volume seems to be too much focused on the feeling and motivation rather on music. We get to see how In No Hurry came into being but not more than that. It is still unknown what set list is going to look like, the interpretations of any of their songs or what are their plans for the future like Nino playing guitar as Sound Horizon.
Yuzu is really good at concealing his emotions. Although he start acting almost like Momo by being distant from people he doesn’t want to hurt. But Yuzu is not like Momo and can’t keep pushing them away knowing how much they care for him. It good to see Haruyoshi’s serious concern for In No Hurry and a side of him being more than just a comic relief. But if Yuzu had reason to be hostile towards people because of his mother, then there is possibility of something behind Momo’s bitterness.
