A Lull in the Sea

Because of their Hamaji Junior High School closing, Umimura residents Sakishima Hikari, Mukaido Manaka, Hiradaira Chisaki, and Isaki Kaname are transfered to Mihama Junior High on the surface.

Manaka ends up with a fish face on her knee because of Uroko-sama's curse. Meanwhile, Hikari gets annoyed that Manaka and Tsumugu are talking and tells him to not concern himself with the people of Umimura.

The older men of the village rounded up Akari and Hikari and the others try to stop them. They learn about the rule that if you are seeing someone from the surface, you will be banished from the village.

Hikari finds out that Akari's boyfriend is the father of the girl who had been fighting him, Miuna. Miuna asks him to help break them up. The next day, they are in a cooking class with Umimura kids. Manaka encourages the kids to try the food they cooked.

Akari is able to tell Uroko-sama and her father how she feels about Itaru, and is starting to smile a little again. Hikari sees that and feels a little better and heads to school. While on their way to school, Chisaki is late and walking on her own.

The students get together for swimming class. The sea kids are getting used to school on land and are getting along with the other kids. The teacher is going to be timing them today, but as the kids groan in response Hikari and Tsumugu's rivalry fires up.

After school, the classmates gather for the final stretch finishing the Ojoshi-sama. After completing the Ojoshi-sama, they wonder if it's possible to somehow do an actual Ofunehiki like they used to do with the surface and the sea working together.

Akari decides once and for all that she is going to live on the surface, and Hikari also leaves the house because he feels that Akari isn't being treated fairly.

Miuna makes a snow sea slug out of the saltflake snow that has fallen. Meanwhile, Hikari thinks about how his father is doing alone in the sea. In the sea, Uroko-sama had gathered everyone to tell them of the calamity that was about to come.

Uroko-sama tells everyone that the Sea God's powers have become much smaller than they used to be, and that the saltflake snow will continue to fall both in the sea and on the surface until the world is cold and gray.

Kaname suddenly confesses his feelings to Chisaki in front of her parents. Hikari and Manaka do their best to go on with the Ofunehiki, hearing that if the Sea God gets his powers back, the disaster that is to befall their world may be stopped.

Akari makes the decision to take Ojoshi-sama's place in the Ofunehiki and head into to marriage with Itaru like she was headed toward the Sea God. That was when the preparations to try to re-enact the first Ofunehiki went back under way.

After a brief talk with Tsumugu, Manaka returns home and meets Hikari. In the occasion, Hikari reaffirms his feelings for her and she claims that have something important to tell him after the Ofunehiki.