What do you do when she won't say how she really feels? Can love endure when her signals shift and blur? Can it withstand unanswered confessions? Can it survive the weight of pressure and expectation? In the haze of uncertainty, is there someone truly worth holding on to?

Yeona playfully dresses up Hanaya and snaps photos that ripple through the school group chat. Norio and Akio are surprised Hiroto hasn’t seen them yet—but when he does, the longing he tried to bury begins to surface.

At home, Hiroto faces pressure from his parents: disapproval of his new faith, the weight of their expectations, and even threats to pressure the school into acting against Hanaya if she keeps speaking to him about Jesus.

At school, Hanaya has already told him to stop pursuing her (in clip: Choosing God’s Call Over Love), though her eyes hinted at something her words denied. She never truly answered his confession; she only turned it away with reasons he could not fight. With nothing more to say to convince her, frustrated and wounded, he withdrew into cold distance. Yet when he saw her picture, the ink in his diary dissolved into quiet longing.

Is Yeona’s plan working? Could one photo break through his defenses? And if so—can Hiroto love with courage and patience? Can he endure both his parents’ pressure and Hanaya’s mixed signals long enough to fight for her, and for love itself?

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