Chapter 9 - Kashiwada-san's Tears

Synopsis
The chapter starts with another one of Oota's antics, and Kashiwada not reacting at all. Tabuchi then comes over and talks with Kashiwada, and Oota takes Kashiwada's rubber band. Threatening to throw it out of the window, Oota loses it to the wind. To everyone's suprise, Kashiwada has tears in her eyes. She then runs away, with tabuchi stating that it was given to Kashiwada by her grandmother, supposedly being a momento. Oota goes to search for it, with Sada and Tadokoro then following him. Oota loses his phone, but finds out it was turned in at the lost and found at school. He then find's Kashiwada's rubber band. He goes to Kashiwada's house to give her the rubber band and a new one, since the old one got dirty. Kashiwada's grandmother then show's up, suprising Oota, who thought she was dead. Oota questioned why she was crying earlier, to which she replies that she simply got dirt in her eyes. Kashiwada thanks OOta, who then ends up running away, being flustered.