Continuing from last chapter, the whole family save Rentarou has gotten addicted to the aptly named addictive cabbage. How can he get them to eat the yakiniku they worked so hard for?
He could just eat the restaurant's supply of cabbage until they run out... but that would send everybody into withdrawl.
He could scare them with stories of people whose lives were ruined by cabbage addiction... if such people existed, but don't.
Rentarou decides to try ordering some fine kalbi, which would surely be more enticing, but it doesn't work. Even when he wraps the cabbage around the meat, the girls simply peel off the cabbage and leave the meat alone.
Hahari and Naddy are both drunk and start kissing Rentarou. They're not eating anymore, but aren't trembling like Kishika did in the previous chapter. Rentarou realizes that everyone has an addiction to kissing that no cabbage can match.
He rolls up the meat and gets his girlfriends to kiss him, acting as the tongs to give them yakiniku. He is interrupted of his kissing of Mei by a furious Mai, who hasn't gotten addicted to kissing yet. She angrily attempts to force him to eat the addictive cabbage. Despite knowing what will happen, he can't resist food that his girlfriend is feeding him.
He manages to force himself to eat a piece of meat, but Mai warns him that he was only able to do so because he's only had a single piece of cabbage so far. The addiction will grow.
To her surprise, she realizes that Rentarou isn't shaking. He reveals that it's because he had yakiniku in his mouth at the time. All of his kisses tasted like yakiniku as a result. For a true kissing addict, a simple reminder is enough. He invites Mai to eat the yakiniku they worked so hard for.
Mai is flustered by how cool Rentarou is being, but insists that she can't let him kiss Mei. With yakiniku in his mouth, Rentarou points out that the last person he'd kissed was Mei, so if Mai were to kiss him now, she'd get an Indirect Kiss with her. This instantly gets Mai to kiss him and frees her of the cabbage addiction.
Now free to continue, Rentarou finishes up by kissing Meme and Momiji. Yakiniku is the best!
The girls are stuffed, but the grumbling of Rentarou's stomach reveals that he hasn't been able to eat himself since he got distracted by feeding them. Since he acted as their tongs, it's now their turn.
Tropes:
- Addiction Displacement: Rentarou breaks the girls' newfound cabbage addiction by Spaghetti Kissing them with yakiniku, as they're all addicted to kissing him.
- Batman Gambit: Rentarou gets his First Kiss with Mai by telling her that the last person he kissed was Mei, giving Mai a chance at an Indirect Kiss with Mei.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Rentarou gets one when he notices Hahari and Naddy have stopped eating the cabbage after kissing him.
- Indirect Kiss: How Rentarou convinces Mai to kiss him. Since the last person he kissed was Mei, kissing him will give Mai an indirect kiss with her.
- Unfortunate Search Results: Rentarou tries to search online for stories about people's lives being ruined by cabbage addiction when the girls get addicted to addictive cabbage. But because the situation Makes Just as Much Sense in Context, his search yields zero results.
