Episode 6

## You Do Live Alone, Right?

**You Do Live Alone, Right?** (一人で住んでるんだよね？, *Hitori de Sunderu nda yo ne?*?) is the sixth episode of the A Couple of Cuckoos anime series.

## Plot

Learning that Hiro rejected Nagi, Erika tries to hook the two up, but fails. Hiro then expresses her interest in seeing Erika's home and believing that she'd see Erika's parents' house, but after that fails she shows her other home where Nagi was at. Feeling jealous of how close Erika was with Nagi, Hiro would then invite them over to her house and reveal who she's "engaged" too.

## Summary

Erika learns from Nagi that he confessed to Hiro, but was rejected and omitted the truth as to why. Instead, he claims that she prefers more intelligent people than her, and he has to beat her in the exams ten times. After learning this, Erika gives Nagi her opinions on the situation and offers her help to get Nagi in a relationship with Hiro.

The following day, Hiro and Erika head to school, and instead of getting a ride from her driver, she takes a taxi as her way of being more independent. Still, however, both Nagi and Erika arrive at school at about the same time. As the two argue for a bit, Hiro comes and sees the two together, which makes her upset with envy. Erika then reassures that Nagi got their first, but addresses Nagi as "Nagi-kun" which further upsets Hiro as Erika addressed him on a first-name basis. Catching Hiro's attention, Erika suggests that they head to the library and start studying, and gleefully Hiro agrees. In the library, Hiro and Nagi wait for Erika to return from the bathroom, and when she does, Erika is shown to be dressed up as "Cupid" which mortifies Nagi. Cupid tries to name Nagi's positive skills during this time, but Hiro outclasses him in every skill. Ditching the Cupid outfit, Erika suggests they continue studying, and Hiro asks which she prefers, and she chooses Erika. During their study session, Hiro advises Erika to study history as if it were a story, but Hiro claims that she should study three times harder to catch up. This leads to an argument between the two, and Hiro mentions that the two seem relatively close to each other and wish to be closer. So Hiro decides to visit Erika's place after school.

Ultimately, following Nagi's advice, Erika has Hiro visit her parents' home and have the house to himself; Nagi stripes down nude and waltzes around the place without a care in the world. That is until they arrive at the home, and a text from Erika reveals that her house is being renovated, so she can't show it to her. After getting fully clothed, Nagi goes around the house to collect his stuff to avoid having Hiro find out he lives there. When the two go to the pool area, Nagi tries to make a break for his room, but trips and falls. Before Hiro could turn around and see the noise, Erika pushed Hiro into the pool and fell in with her. Hiro brushes it off as a common cliche, but notes that she may have seen someone in the living room. Erika claims that it was a cat that she may have seen and suggested they take a bath.

They do, and Nagi manages to reach his room during it, but when he does, Erika and Hiro are startled by something. As it turns out, it was Erika's stalkers, and Nagi handily defeats them all. Checking out where the noise came from, Erika and Hiro blame it on the cat again. When it's time for Hiro to leave, Erika apologizes to Hiro for her impertinence with the pool, but Hiro pays no mind to it and asks to come again. Erika happily agrees to it, but before Hiro leaves, she spots Nagi's stamp book, and Erika lies that she meant to borrow one of Nagi's study books but was given that by mistake. Knowing the situation, Hiro still wishes that she was closer to Erika than Nagi, and she gets an epiphany on her way home.

Hiro invites Erika and Nagi over to her house, and they're left speechless because Hiro lives in a shrine temple, and she's a shrine maiden. Immediately, Nagi wanted to get his book stamped and Hiro, as it turns out, did the stamping. Afterward, Hiro invites the two to her study room, and her mother Asami serves them a slice of cake, excluding Nagi, who she is wary of. Once Erika leaves to use the bathroom, Hiro reveals that her engagement was inheriting the shrine. As for why she told Nagi, she believed him to be appropriate to take on the burden.

## Characters

* Nagi Umino
* Erika Amano
* Hiro Segawa
* Asami Segawa