
Four months after the Régiment de Cuisine, Soma cut his hair short with a similar hairstyle from his initial appearance. After the Stagiaire event, Soma's bangs grew in length, now reaching just below his cheeks and has more volume overall. He has spiky dark-red hair with short bangs. It is shown that Sōma has had this scar as far back as elementary school. Sōma is a young teenage boy with yellow eyes and a vertical scar on his left eyebrow.


Meanwhile, the girls at Polar Star Dormitory are practically dying from the summer heat and stress for the Autumn Elections Preliminaries, and make a few failed attempts to cool down until the boys, including the Aldini brothers and Ikumi, arrive and take them to a cool stream where they eat shaved ice, and then barbeque. In the end, Erina decides to focus on perfecting her cooking instead of understanding love. Alice also attempts to educate Erina on the concept of love despite not knowing about it herself.

There, Alice enjoys watching Erina embarrass herself with wearing an old coat, a bathing suit in public, and admitting that she admires someone. Erina is at a loss for what to do during summer vacation after finishing her schedule early for the day, so Alice takes her to a public pool. This episode takes place sometime before the second season, before the Autumn Elections Preliminaries.
