Episode 25

**I'm Home** (ただいま, *Tadaima*) is the 25th and final episode of the Summer Time Rendering anime.

## Synopsis

On a new July 22, Shinpei woke up on the boat. It was his first return to "Hitogashima" in Wakayama City in two years. However, stepping on the island, he feels a deja vu of being recently here. Shinpei feels a little strange, but the time peacefully passes. The island comes alive with preparations for the summer festival, and Shinpei and Ushio are finally reunited.

## Summary

On July 22nd, Shinpei wakes up on the boat that heads to Hitogashima. He sees Hizuru is sitting in front of him and cries, happy that she is alive and reveals her true identity. Shinpei then gets off the boat, he feels a deja vu that he has been recently here and wonders how he knew that Hizuru is Nagumo Ryunosuke. He sees Mio coming with a bike and prepares to stop her from falling into the sea, but she uses her brakes and stops. Sou and Tokiko also show to greet him. Shinpei then wonders why he came back as he feels he was worried about them. Sou explains that he called him yesterday and told him that if he doesn't come, Ushio is gonna beat him up. While heading to the Kofune, Ushio sees them and rushes to punch Shinpei, but stops her fist. She tries to be casual and tells him that he decided to come back, but Shinpei states he came back because she left him a voice message.

Shinpei listen to the voice message from Ushio, and she asks him to come during the summer festival, and threatens to beat him up. However, she calls him "Ajiro", which makes him recall a dream he had where someone told him the island would disappear. Shinpei then decided to head to Hitogashima to see for himself if everyone is okay.

Shinpei goes to the store, where he sees Shiori and some other kids, who are surprised to see him back and explain that Ushio was right as she kept repeating that Shinpei was coming back. Shinpei then heads to the Hito Shrine, where he sees Iwao Karikiri, who introduces him to his son Yamato, wondering if Shinpei remembers him and Shinpei confirms. Iwao is happy that nothing bad had happened this year, but Yamato recalls that Ushio lost her pendant on the beach the other day and have spend days searching it. Shinpei hears the waves and excuses himself and heads towards the beach.

At the beach, Shinpei sees Ushio and apologizes for leaving like that for Tokyo. Ushio explains the other day she had a dream of losing Shinpei and didn't want the last time they saw each other to be when he left for Tokyo, and that's why she called. She then acts of catching his shadow and so does Shinpei. He then notices the seashell pendant and Ushio is happy to get it back, explaining she lost it two days ago while cleaning the beach. Shinpei then puts the pendant back on her neck.

On July 24th, at Kofune Restaurant, Hizuru signs a copy of her book for Shinpei. He reveals that he knows her identity from his dream and that Ushio also had a similar dream. Hizuru then considers its a memory from a parallel world. Ryunosuke enters with his wife, Asako, and daughters, Shiori and Haine. Haine greets and thanks Hizuru for the present for her birthday, and notes that tomorrow is Ushio's birthday. Ryunosuke reveals that Hizuru is writing a new book and despite her act, she is quite happy to meet a fan. Shinpei gets excited, but Hizuru doesn't want to tell him about her new book and instead wants to learn more about his dream as she finds his story interesting.

In the evening, at the festival, Sou asks Shinpei to give him strength and Shinpei realizes he still likes Mio. Shinpei then sees Hizuru, who is writing her new novel "Sumer Time Rendering" in excitement as Shinpei gave her quite an inspiration. Ushio calls Shinpei, asking him where he is and hearing about Sou, she states she knows that he loves Mio and that he already confessed last year and she turned him down. Sou again confesses to Mio, who wonders what he likes about her. Shinpei heads to the beach to meet with Ushio, after buying her takoyaki as she requested. However, Ushio is disappointed at how little he brought as they had a promise. As she tries to remember the promise, she and Shinpei remember it at the same time that he promised to buy her 10 or 100 when she was sneaking at the shadows only door in the old hospital. The fireworks then start and Ushio welcomes Shinpei back.

The next day, everyone celebrates Ushio's 18th birthday.

## Characters

* Shinpei Ajiro
* Hizuru Minakata
* Mio Kofune
* Sou Hishigata
* Tokiko Hishigata
* Ushio Kofune
* Ginjiro Nezu
* Alain Kofune
* Tetsu Totsumura
* Shiori Kobayakawa
* Iwao Karikiri
* Yamato Karikiri
* Ryunosuke Minakata
* Haine
* Seido Hishigata
* Chitose Nezu

## Trivia

* Ushio's Yukata at the end of the episode is the same as the one seen briefly in the ending scene of Episode 3 or Chapter 10.