Episode 6: "Mom's Heart Pounds"

Kano and Tenko talk at school while Machiko remembers her husband. Matsushima talks to Yuka and tells her about a pot demonstration her mother might be interested in.

Her mother comes to the demonstration and recognized the man running it, someone who had worked with her husband twenty years previously. They end up having lunch and we learn that her husband has been dead for five years. Yamada, the pot demonstrator, tells her that he wants to open his own restaurant.

Tooru invites Kana to his apartment where he lives alone. Nao goes to see Koji at the soccer field and Jun spies on them. Tanko talks to Nao and a wind flips her skirt up, revealing her panties. Koji makes some kind of remark and Jun ends up with a nosebleed.

Machiko buys the pot collection for 200,000 yen on a 48-payment plan. She fixes dinner and Yuka, Maruyama and Matsushima show up. During dinner Yamada calls and asks Machiko to meet him the next day.

They do that, then go to a movie and get some coffee. He tells her he was divorced three years ago and he wants to go for a drink with her the next day.

Kana is worried a lot about being alone with Tooru in his apartment. She meets him after school and they go there but it's obvious both of them are very nervous. They end up getting into an argument and Kana runs out of the apartment.

Yuka and her two guys end up trailing Machiko and Yamada to find out what is going on, and they end up at the restaurant where Tooru works. Nao, Koji and Kana also all arrive to spy on Machiko.

Yamada tells Machiko that today was his last day of selling pots, and that he is returning to his home town to open up a restaurant. When Machiko goes to the restroom, Kana confronts Yamada and another mini-riot breaks out. It turns out, though, that Yamada is engaged already.

Kana and Tooru make up, and finally kiss. Machiko takes the pots to the ramen shop and tricks Koyangi into buying them for half price.

The ending starts with "a woman must be docile." This is followed by "Always follow your man three steps behind him", "Willing to be a follower", "To be docile and willing to depend on the other's strength", and "to be open and not defiant."