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I am just enjoying this story arc more and more. This was a very enjoyable sexy episode with plenty of funny moments, no duel and no car.
Touga is still a playboy, but I wonder if he is taking lessons from Akio as well.
At home, Touga is sitting on the terrace with Nanami and gets up to take a shower. He asks Nanami if she’d like to join him and there is an extremely long pause before he says – “just kidding” and goes inside. Nanami’s face is beat red and getting redder by the second. I thought it was going to explode!
Nanami is in her room, looking at photos of her and Touga when they were children and when they shared everything – meals, baths, and bed. She is depressed and worried that they are drifting apart. She then sneaks into the bathroom and watches Touga shower for a long time. If it weren’t for the spinning rose in the corner, I would have thought my VOD froze. But it would have been fine to have it freeze right there! 
Nanami takes Touga’s phone and leaves, but he knew she was there all along! Maybe that’s why he posed for her.
At school, Nanami watches Touga surrounded by tons of girls. The phone rings and Nanami tells the girl on the other end that Touga has broken up with her. The phone rings again and she does the same. If this is her plan for getting Touga to herself, it’s going to take an awfully long time! Nanami is in a foul mood, full of jealousy and she sees Touga trying to ask Utena out on a date, but Utena turns him down.
Nanami confronts her and demands that Utena give her back her brother. She accuses Utena of “hitting” on her brother and gets so agitated, that she begins to fall down the stairs. Akio saves her, but she doesn’t know who he is. Next, she is at home with him, Anthy, and Utena and he is wrapping her ankle, explaining who he is. Akio gives Utena the first aid kit to put away and their hands touch. A very intense, sexually charged moment! Nanami is forced to remind them that she’s there and the spell is broken. I wonder what would have happened if Nanami hadn’t been there.
Anthy brings in shaved ice and spoon feeds Akio. Nanami discovers that they are brother and sister. I just had to laugh at the way Anthy and Akio were carrying on with the shaved ice – more like lovers than brother and sister and Nanami seemed envious of their relationship, probably because that’s how she’d like it to be with Touga and herself.
Later, Nanami tries to make Utena jealous of the feelings between Anthy and Akio and she really comes very close to the truth. She then accuses Utena of being in love with Akio herself and realizes it’s true. Utena sputters, but doesn’t exactly deny it either – has she accepted it finally? Did anyone else notice that the statues kept changing here? Was it supposed to mean something?
Nanami eventually finds out that Touga is not her real blood related brother and is devastated. There goes her fantasy! There is a knock on her bedroom door and Touga enters wearing only a robe. He asks if she’s seen his phone and she turns red with guilt. Touga comes closer to her and checks her for fever. He offers to kiss her goodnight and she gasps. There is a pause and he says – “just kidding” and walks out.
Nanami doesn’t want to go home anymore and stays with others so she won’t have to. She even makes a date to stay with Mitsuru and he gets so obviously excited at the prospect of having her with him. Akio overhears her making the date and says that it’s against school policy not to sleep in their assigned rooms. He asks Nanami to accompany him to the chairman’s residence, where he tells Anthy and Utena that Nanami will be staying with them.
When Akio later talks to Nanami, she asks him if he wants to know why she ran away, but he says he doesn’t because he’s “only interested in turning the Chairman’s Residence into a harem.” Nanami is stunned and there is a short pause before he says – “just kidding”. But at the same time in the other room, Utena is asking Anthy if she ever gets “the feeling Akio’s trying to make a harem?” Utena remembers the kiss and then says – “no, Akio isn’t like that” and mentions his upcoming marriage. By saying that, is she only trying to convince herself that there are no feelings between them?
As the girls try to figure out the bed situation, Touga comes to take Nanami home. She says that she can’t go with him because they really aren’t brother and sister, which surprises everyone in the room. Touga says – “you found out?” Nanami considers her confused feelings and cries, asking him to leave. Is the forbidden so much better? She so desperately wanted a relationship with him when she thought they were related, and now that they aren’t and she could have a relationship with him, she doesn’t want him. I just don’t get it.
That night Nanami wanders into the main room and comes upon Akio and Anthy in the aftermath of lovemaking. But why is Anthy’s dueling dress there? Nanami is traumatized by what she has seen. To think that this brother and sister have the very relationship that she wanted so badly to have with Touga! I wonder what she’ll do now. I am very curious to see what happens next!
