Episode 11

## You Can't Just Pretend It Didn't Happen

**You Can't Just Pretend It Didn't Happen** (無かったことになんて出来ないよ, *Nakatta koto ni nante dekinai yo*?) is the eleventh episode of the A Couple of Cuckoos anime series.

## Plot

A scene between Nagi and Sachi occurs during a thunderstorm, which leaves Sachi in an emotionally flustered and upset state. This develops a rift between Nagi and Sachi, whereas Nagi has no clue how to close it.

## Summary

Nighttime around the Umino Family Diner, Sachi finishes cleaning up a table and is thanked by her parents for her help. Her father expresses his hope that she'd return home, and Namie offers her some dinner, but Sachi flatly refuses on both accounts. However, before she leaves, Sachi promises to come back again. After Sachi goes, her parents talk about how attached Sachi still is to her brother Nagi.

At home, Nagi folds laundry in the living room and sees a thunderstorm outside. Wondering if Sachi will be home soon, Nagi is startled by Erika who asks for the detergent. Just then, a lightning bolt struck the area causing a power outage and startling the two. Using her phone for a light source, Erika becomes scared when she believes it's an attack from Mars, but Nagi denies it. The two then head to Nagi's room so he can fetch his phone, all while Nagi tells Erika how used to power outages he is at his old home. Once Nagi finds his phone, he realizes how low the battery it has, and it dies; sequentially, Erika's phone dies, leaving the two entirely in the dark. Later, Erika lights an aroma candle in her room and asks Nagi how living there has been for him. The question catches Nagi a bit off, and she rephrases the question of how his life has been since he first met her. Erika goes on to explain her thoughts and experiences since meeting Nagi. She then gets an epiphany about an emergency kit downstairs and asks that Nagi go and fetch it. Reluctantly, Nagi agrees, and downstairs, Nagi nearly slips on a puddle of water on the floor near the emergency kit location. The puddle came from Sachi's drenched clothing, who stood behind Nagi, and he nearly slipped and fell. Nagi then unintentionally pinned Sachi to the wall, making it look like he had kissed her. The lights return on, and Nagi sees that it was Sachi and not Erika who he encountered down there and plays off what had happened, but Sachi overcome with emotion, isn't.

The following day, Sachi goes to school, and although her friends try and engage in a conversation with her, she's too gloomy to talk. Hence, her friends talk about the latest tv show they all watch, and in it, it's revealed that one of the characters is revealed to love her elder brother. Hearing this catches Sachi's attention, who recounts the negative qualities of Nagi and throws a mini-tantrum.

Afterward, Nagi is shown shopping for some discounted pork, but decides to go with the fish that was part of a limited-time sale. At home, Nagi cooks the Umino Family Curry and calls Sachi to come downstairs from her room to try some. However, she refuses to, even ignoring Nagi's attempt to coax her into doing it. Once Erika arrives home and is brought up to date about Sachi's mood at the dinner table while she eats some curry. Recounting what could be wrong with Sachi, Nagi concludes it was him bumping into Sachi during the blackout. Lecturing Nagi in her "Sexy Teacher" outfit, Erika makes Nagi realize that what he did to Sachi has her in an emotionally flustered state. Nagi would later try and apologize to Sachi, who locked herself in her room, but didn't have the nerve to do it.

The next day at school, Hiro and Nagi continue their study sessions, where Erika sends Hiro a text explaining that she can't make it due to oversleeping. However, a flashback reveals that Erika didn't oversleep, but wanted Nagi to patch things up with Sachi. In the present, Hiro notices that Nagi hasn't taken down any notes and offers to hear his troubles as a shrine maiden priestess. Taking up Hiro's offer, Nagi explains to her about his situation with his sister, but omits any names or the case that led up to it. After hearing Nagi, Hiro gives her advice on Nagi's situation and drafts him a good luck charm.

That afternoon, Nagi returns home, and at the door of Sachi's room, he knocks on it and formally apologizes to Sachi for how he's treated her. The apology moves Sachi, and when she opens the door to her room, it slams into Nagi's head, and she demands that Nagi microwave some curry for her. Later, Sachi does some baseball practice swings in her room and then goes to bed with Erika

## Characters

* Sachi Umino
* Nagi Umino
* Erika Amano
* Yohei Umino
* Namie Umino
* Hiro Segawa