So, Yurippe says the Angel’s assault is about to start, which happens to be the exam season, how scary. And now comes Yurippe’s new plan, which is to interfere and make the Angel get bad marks, that way she’ll lose her reputation and lose her dignity as the council president. Yurippe has placed Takamatsu, Hinata, Oyama, Takeyama and Otonashi into the Angel’s class.

Seats are chosen by lottery and Takeyama luckily gets the seat in front of the Angel. So, the plan is for Takeyama to take two tests papers, fill one with stupid answers and when they collect it in switch that one with the Angel’s test paper as Hinata causes a distraction.

Then they realise a big flaw in their plan, what to put for the Angel’s name. So Otonashi was about to rush out to find a register when the Angel stops him. He says he’s worried but the Angel, surprisingly nice, tells him to relax and tells him that her name is Kanade Tachibana. Wait a minute… that voice sounds awfully like Kobato… and is just found out it is the same voice actor, huh, I like that.

So, the test finishes and Hinata fails with his stupidity to cause a distraction, in which case Yurippe clicks a switch which sends Hinata’s chair, with him on it, crashing into the ceiling. She sure knows how to plan ahead. Takeyama successfully switches the test papers.

Next exam, Takamatsu has to be the distraction, I wonder what’s gonna happen to him… he he he… He fails to get people’s attention and was propelled into the ceiling like Hinata. Takeyama against successfully switches the test papers.

Oyama up for the next exam, in which Yurippe tells him to confess to Tachibana (I’ll write that now instead of Angel). He does, and unexpectedly Tachibana replies with ‘pick a time and place then’. But Hinata ends up crashing into the ceiling with the rocket chair.

Anyway, the exams end now and Otonashi sees Tachibana walk out of a room with a disappointed face.

With rumours of Tachibana making a mockery of the test, she is kicked off as the council president.

Now that she’s out of the way, Yurippe starts Operation Tornado that night. GirlsDeMo, with Yui as the new vocalist and guitarist sings the last song that Iwasawa wrote.

Right on cue, Tachibana comes. Otonashi sees something different and tells the others not to shoot. He’s right and instead of stopping the concert Tachibana just walks past everyone to buy a super spicy Mapo tofu ticket. Like last time Yurippe orders the fans to be turned on and blows the student’s meal tickets away, but Tachibana also loses hers and she looked like she really wanted it… that makes me slightly hurt inside… she just wanted to eat some nice food… but you had to steal it away from her…

It was Otonashi who picked it up and even though the Mapo tofu is really spicy it has a nice aftertaste, and I can say I agree as I have had it before, it’s  really nice, though I’ve only eaten Chinese Si Chuan Mapo tofu, may be different for Japanese.

So, Otonashi says that Tachibana may be just like one of them, that idea is ridiculed by his friends. But the reason he thought that was because the thought of Tachibana, alone in a corner of the cafeteria, eating the Mapo tofu, was just too sad…

Oh dear… I ended up crying at the end of this episode. The first half made me laugh, the second half made me cry. The moment she lost her meal ticket was where it did it for me, it  just made you think, maybe she isn’t the bad person, is normal like them, and it was Yurippe who was the bully here. Loneliness can change a person for life. I know how Tachibana feels, it’s sad to be hated, to be alone. I really wasn’t prepared for this second half. I now really hope that Tachibana ends up with Yurippe’s group, and it seems like Otonashi is the only one to understand her enough to be able to persuade her. Well, maybe in the episodes to come then.