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⚠️ This article contains full spoilers for Episodes 1 through 6 of Until the T-Shirt Dries (Tシャツが乾くまで). If you have not watched Episode 6 yet, I recommend coming back after you do.
Episode 6 of Until the T-Shirt Dries is titled “証拠は？” (“What’s the Evidence?”). Mitsuru, who disappeared for a year, finally comes home, and for the first time he, Sakiko, and Itsuki actually face one another together. Most of the first half is spent listening to Mitsuru explain where he has been for the past year and why he stayed in Nagano. I expected that once he finished telling his side, at least some of the questions that had been stuck since the first five episodes would finally move forward. Instead, after explaining his version of events, Mitsuru turns the question around: if Itsuki is convinced that he and Azusa were having an affair, then what exactly have Sakiko and Itsuki been doing for the past year, and what gives them the right to be so sure that their own relationship is not an affair?
Episode 6 aired on August 14, 2026, recording a household rating of 7.5% and an individual rating of 4.2% in the Kanto region according to Video Research, tying Episode 5 for the series high at the time. Episode 5 made me directly angry. Episode 6 creates a different, colder kind of discomfort. Mitsuru does not come back shouting, and he does not suddenly become an obviously hateful person. He still speaks in the same flat, calm tone as before, and some of the things he says, taken individually, are not completely unreasonable. That is what makes it so frustrating. You want to reject him immediately, but when he asks, “Then what about the two of you?”, the answer is not quite as simple as expected.
Until the T-Shirt Dries Episode 6 Basic Information: Air Date, “証拠は？”, and 7.5% Rating
Episode 6 aired on August 14, 2026, in TBS’s Friday Drama slot. Its subtitle is “証拠は？” (“What’s the Evidence?”). The household rating remained at 7.5% and the individual rating at 4.2%, unchanged from Episode 5, leaving Episodes 5 and 6 tied for the series high at the time.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Episode | Episode 6 |
| Subtitle | 証拠は？ (“What’s the Evidence?”) |
| Air Date | August 14, 2026 |
| Household Rating | 7.5% (tied with Episode 5 for the series high) |
| Individual Rating | 4.2% (tied with Episode 5 for the series high) |
| Ratings by Episode | 6.9%→6.2%→6.8%→7.0%→7.5%→7.5% |
| Streaming | Netflix (Taiwan), U-NEXT／TVer (Japan) |
Looking at the subtitles of the first six episodes together, Episode 6’s “証拠は？” feels unusually direct. From “Until the Secret Is Noticed,” “The Scent of the Third Friday,” “Things I’m Not Good At,” “The Pitiful Person,” and “If It Doesn’t Cause Trouble for Anyone,” the earlier titles mostly described a state, a feeling, or something the characters were going through. Episode 6 suddenly becomes a short, direct question. The biggest difference is that Mitsuru, the person who has been under suspicion for the first five episodes, has finally returned and is now sitting across from Sakiko and Itsuki asking them the question instead. Simply switching who gets to ask changes the direction of the entire drama, which until now has been following Sakiko and Itsuki as they searched for answers about Mitsuru and Azusa.
Until the T-Shirt Dries Episode 6 Recap: Mitsuru Explains His Missing Year, Then Starts Questioning Sakiko and Itsuki
Sakiko, Mitsuru, and Itsuki Finally Meet Face to Face: The Punch Never Lands, but the Slap Does
Picking up directly from the end of Episode 5, Mitsuru really is standing at the front door after disappearing for a year, with both Sakiko and Itsuki there. It is the first time all three of them actually come face to face. Itsuki almost punches Mitsuru the moment he sees him. His fist is already raised, but he stops himself and leaves without doing anything. Sakiko stays behind to face Mitsuru, and the first thing she does is slap him. The slap is much lighter than expected, almost as though she is too exhausted to even know how angry she is supposed to be. She will slap him a second time later in the episode.
What stands out most here is the force of that slap. She has waited for a year without knowing where he was or what their marriage even meant anymore, but once she finally sees him again, all that remains is a restrained slap. It is not that Sakiko is not angry. It is more that after carrying the anger for so long, she no longer knows where to begin. The man standing in front of her is the source of every question she has lived with for a year, yet now that he is actually back, she has far less energy to fight him than expected.
Where Was Mitsuru for the Past Year? The House in Nagano Was His Family Home All Along
Once Itsuki leaves and Sakiko and Mitsuru are alone, Mitsuru finally explains where he has been for the past year. He had been living with his parents in Nagano the entire time. The address saved in his phone memo was his family home. And the woman who answered the door in Episode 5 and claimed not to know Mitsuru was not some unrelated resident. She was his mother. Mitsuru had already asked her that if Sakiko ever found the address and came looking for him, she should pretend not to know anything.
The reason he suddenly came back now is that his father recently died, which made him think of Sakiko again. More troublingly, Mitsuru then reveals that something similar happened before. Not long after the two first met, he also disappeared without contact for three months. In other words, this habit of leaving without explanation and returning only when he feels like it is not new. This time, the three months simply became an entire year.
And yet Mitsuru still talks about all of this in almost exactly the same tone as before. He does not become emotional or aggressively defend himself. He simply calmly recounts what happened, almost as if he is filling Sakiko in on a very late life update. In the end, Sakiko is the one who cannot remain there and leaves the house first. What hurts may not even be that his answers are outrageous, but that after giving them, Mitsuru still feels like exactly the same person who walked away a year ago.
“What Was Wrong with Me? Was It About Having Children?” Sakiko Finally Turns the Question Back on Herself
After leaving, Sakiko remembers the day she first met Mitsuru and thinks again about the years they spent together. Eventually, she returns to face him. This time, instead of asking about someone else, she asks directly: “What was wrong with me? Was it about having children?” She then says that being told “it wasn’t your fault” is actually the hardest thing to hear, because if it truly was not her fault, then she does not even know what she could change.
Mitsuru does not answer directly. He simply remains silent, and Sakiko begins reading that silence in another direction. She asks whether he has already found someone other than her. There is no actual “yes,” so Mitsuru’s silence cannot simply be treated as an admission. But for Sakiko, who has waited for an entire year, the lack of an answer is already frustrating enough. She also notices that Mitsuru is no longer wearing his wedding ring. Each detail might have another explanation on its own, but placed together, it becomes difficult for her not to move toward the answer she least wants to consider.
Yu Aoi does not play this scene with a huge breakdown either. Much of Sakiko’s emotion is held in her body, especially in the way her shoulders keep trembling slightly, as though she is already close to collapsing but is still trying to finish asking the question properly. Sakiko has spent so long avoiding the direct question of what she herself did wrong. Once she finally manages to say it aloud, the answer she receives is still not something she can hold onto.
Sakiko Returns to the Laundromat Again: Itsuki Has Become the Person Who Makes Her Feel Safe
After speaking with Mitsuru, Sakiko leaves the house again and eventually ends up back at the laundromat, where Itsuki is also there. The drama does not stage some dramatic reunion between them. They simply stay together for a while and later return together. After such a tense episode, this is the only short section where the atmosphere genuinely relaxes a little.
Sakiko says, “I feel so relieved here.” Itsuki’s expression loosens slightly when he hears it. It is not an obvious smile, more like a face that has been tense for a long time finally gets one brief moment where it does not need to hold itself together. The line becomes especially complicated because Mitsuru has already come home. In theory, the person who disappeared for a year has finally returned, so Sakiko should be able to feel relieved. But the place where she actually says “I feel safe” is the laundromat, and the person standing beside her is Itsuki.
And Mitsuru is watching them from a distance.
Mitsuru Denies Having an Affair with Azusa, Then Asks Sakiko and Itsuki: “So What Exactly Are the Two of You?”
The next day, the three sit together again. This time, Itsuki directly asks Mitsuru whether he and his wife were having an affair. Mitsuru explains that he had been planning to visit his parents, from whom he had been estranged for years, and felt anxious about it, so he asked Azusa to accompany him. During the trip, however, he ran away at the service area. As for their relationship, he says they only used to meet at the laundromat and talk, and that there was no affair.
Itsuki is obviously unable to simply accept that answer and keeps pressing him. Mitsuru then turns the question back on him: so in Itsuki’s mind, was Azusa the kind of person who would have an affair? Is he interpreting their relationship as romantic simply because a man and a woman were traveling together? Was that conclusion something Itsuki himself placed onto the situation first?
Then comes the question that makes the entire conversation uncomfortable. Mitsuru applies the same standard to Sakiko and Itsuki’s past year and asks what exactly their relationship is now. If they keep demanding that he prove he was not having an affair with Azusa, then what gives the two of them the confidence to say that what they have been doing is not an affair?
His tone remains flat from beginning to end. He never raises his voice or behaves as though he is deliberately trying to attack them. That somehow makes it harder to respond. Episode 6 ends on this question. After the broadcast, many viewers were uncomfortable with Mitsuru’s attitude, with some angry that he could disappear for a year and then turn around and interrogate everyone else, while others said the drama was beginning to feel more like psychological horror. But the scene is more complicated than simply “Mitsuru turns the accusation back on them.” The difficult part is the question itself, because Sakiko and Itsuki really have grown very close over the past year. Defining exactly what their relationship is does not seem like something that can be answered in a single sentence.
What Does “証拠は？” Mean? Episode 6 Throws the Same Question Back at Sakiko and Itsuki
For the first five episodes, Sakiko and Itsuki were the ones looking for evidence. They wanted to know what exactly Mitsuru and Azusa’s relationship was. They questioned Naoto at the café, asked Miyauchi at the secondhand bookstore, and followed clues through the service area, phone records, and two tickets. They spent an entire year trying to assemble an answer from whatever pieces they could find, yet by Episode 6, nobody can actually say for certain whether Mitsuru and Azusa were having an affair.
Once Mitsuru comes back, that question is suddenly turned around. Itsuki asks him to prove that he and Azusa were not having an affair, but Mitsuru uses Sakiko and Itsuki’s relationship over the past year to respond: if doing laundry together every week, eating at each other’s homes, and driving places together does not directly prove that two people are dating, then why does simply seeing him and Azusa traveling together allow everyone to decide that they were having an affair?
That is exactly where the problem lies. Proving that a relationship exists can involve messages, photographs, or statements from the people involved. But asking someone to provide evidence that something did not happen is much harder, because it is difficult to define what would ever count as enough. Sakiko and Itsuki have been stuck on that problem for the first five episodes. In Episode 6, Mitsuru puts the same impossible task in front of them.
“証拠は？” is therefore not simply a line Mitsuru uses to defend himself. It makes a problem that has existed since the beginning much more explicit. Sakiko, Itsuki, and even the audience following their investigation have become used to seeing a few fragments and then filling in the rest of the relationship ourselves. Episode 6 simply switches the pair being observed. Suddenly, judgments that once felt easy are no longer quite so simple.
The Trip to Nagano Was Not a Dead End: Episode 6 Reveals Mitsuru Had Already Told His Mother to Pretend She Did Not Know Him
In Episode 5, Sakiko followed the address on Mitsuru’s phone to Nagano, rang the doorbell, and was told that the resident did not know him. At the time, it seemed as though she had once again followed a clue that led nowhere. Episode 6 reveals that this was not what happened at all. The house was Mitsuru’s family home, and the woman who answered the door was his mother. Mitsuru had simply instructed her in advance that if Sakiko came looking for him, she should pretend she had nothing to do with him.
That answer completely changes the Episode 5 scene. Sakiko had actually found the place where Mitsuru had been living for an entire year. She was one door away from the answer. But when the door opened, she was given a denial that had already been prepared in advance. She had not gone to the wrong address, and the clue had not gone cold. Someone knew she was looking for him and deliberately made her believe there was nothing there.
What is even more unsettling is that Mitsuru telling his mother what to do in advance means he had at least imagined the possibility that Sakiko might eventually find her way to Nagano. If he thought that far ahead, then his choice was still not to leave a message letting her know he was safe. He prepared a way to avoid being found instead. That is different from simply leaving home on impulse, because he did think about Sakiko. He just thought about her and still decided not to let her know anything.
From Three Months Without Contact to Disappearing for a Year: Mitsuru Has Always Had a Habit of Running Away
Once Episode 6 reveals that Mitsuru had previously disappeared without contact for three months, it becomes impossible to treat this one-year disappearance as a completely isolated event. Not long after the two first met, he had already vanished once without saying anything. He eventually came back, Sakiko continued dating him, and they later married. The issue was never truly dealt with. Years later, the same pattern returns, only this time it stretches from three months into an entire year.
What makes Mitsuru so difficult to understand is not that every sentence he says is a lie. Looking back, he rarely gives directly false answers. More often, he simply says nothing. When they married, the two agreed that “we cannot lie, but we do not have to talk about things we do not want to say.” At first, that sounded like a way of giving each other space. By this point, it begins to feel different, because as long as Mitsuru chooses not to answer, he can leave many things suspended in a space where he technically “did not lie.”
He disappears for a year without explanation. When Sakiko asks, “What was wrong with me?”, he stays silent. When she finds the Nagano address, he has his mother deny knowing him. Every incident has its own possible explanation when looked at separately, but together they reveal that Mitsuru is very accustomed to leaving blank spaces around the things he does not want to confront and allowing the people around him to guess what those blanks mean.
That is why the most striking thing about Mitsuru in Episode 6 is not that he suddenly becomes a different person. It is that he seems not to have changed at all. He could disappear for three months before. Now he can leave for a year. Even after returning, he speaks in almost exactly the same way as he always did. Sakiko may once have understood this as simply part of his difficulty communicating. This time, she is forced to confront how much this way of relating has actually made her carry.
Episode 6 Performances: Yu Aoi’s Two Slaps, Kenichi Matsuyama’s Calmness, and Ayumu Nakajima’s Sense of Safety
Yu Aoi slaps Mitsuru twice in this episode. Neither slap is particularly hard, but they feel completely different because of where they happen. The first comes immediately after seeing her husband again after a year, more like her body reacts before her mind can. The second happens later, after Sakiko has had time to think again about how they met, their marriage, and the question of what exactly was wrong with her. By then, it is no longer the impulse of first seeing him. It feels more like after thinking through everything, this is still the only way she can respond to the person in front of her.
The scene where she asks, “What was wrong with me? Was it about having children?” is even harder to watch. Yu Aoi does not play Sakiko as someone crying uncontrollably. Her face barely changes at times. What she cannot hide is the slight trembling of her shoulders. It does not feel like someone preparing to explode emotionally, but someone already close to breaking who is still trying to finish asking the question properly. Because the scene remains so restrained, Mitsuru’s silence feels even longer.
Kenichi Matsuyama, meanwhile, never plays Mitsuru as a straightforward “bad person.” Whether he is talking about his past, explaining what happened in Nagano, or eventually turning the question back on Sakiko and Itsuki, his tone does not suddenly become cold or provocative. He remains the same quiet Mitsuru. That absence of obvious malice is exactly what makes him so difficult to deal with. Some of the things he says make sense when isolated, but once they are placed back inside the fact that he disappeared for a year, something still feels stuck.
Ayumu Nakajima gives the laundromat scene a small moment of relief. After Sakiko says, “I feel so safe here,” Itsuki does not break into a large smile. His cheeks and previously tense expression simply soften slightly. It is a tiny change, but it fits their relationship perfectly at this point. They still cannot say everything directly, but hearing Sakiko say she feels safe beside him clearly makes Itsuki happy.
Fumiya Takahashi’s Naoto increasingly becomes the person willing to say the questions everyone else is thinking. When dealing with Mitsuru, he does not have Sakiko’s emotional attachment to their marriage or Itsuki’s unresolved feelings about Azusa. That means he can simply ask something like, “How long was the last time you disappeared?” — exactly the kind of question most viewers immediately want someone to ask. Naoto spent the earlier episodes standing at a greater distance, but from Episode 6 onward, his position in Mitsuru’s storyline begins to feel much more significant.
Until the T-Shirt Dries Episode 6 Review: Mitsuru Disappeared for a Year and Still Has the Nerve to Question Them, but the Question Is Annoyingly Hard to Refute
Mitsuru Explains His Year but Never Asks How Sakiko Spent Hers
After Episode 6 aired, what angered many viewers most was that Mitsuru could disappear for an entire year, come back, and then turn around and ask what kind of relationship Sakiko and Itsuki have. That is certainly infuriating, but after finishing the episode, what bothered me even more was something else: Mitsuru explains a lot, yet he never asks Sakiko how she has lived through the past year.
He explains that he went to Nagano and why he suddenly came home. He responds to Itsuki’s suspicions about Azusa. By the end, he is even questioning other people’s relationships. But when faced with the wife who waited for him for an entire year, he never seems to think to ask what she went through. The contrast becomes even clearer when placed beside Sakiko. In Episode 5, when she finally gets a call from Mitsuru, she has countless questions of her own she could ask, yet the only one she chooses is “Why did you take Azusa with you?”, and even that is on Itsuki’s behalf. One person instinctively thinks about everyone else first. The other never even asks how the person he left behind survived the year. The gap between them is already enormous simply in terms of what they want to know about each other.
That is why the most uncomfortable part of Episode 6 is not only what Mitsuru says, but what he never says. He can calmly explain his own circumstances and turn Sakiko and Itsuki’s relationship back on them, but there is no “I’m sorry I made you wait this long” or “Were you okay this year?” That absence is more obvious than an argument would have been.
Sakiko’s “What Was Wrong with Me?”: Sometimes Being Told You Did Nothing Wrong Leaves You With Even Less to Hold Onto
The hardest part of the scene where Sakiko asks, “What was wrong with me? Was it about having children?” is not simply that she begins blaming herself. It is the line that follows: “Being told it wasn’t your fault is the hardest thing, because then there’s nothing you can even change.”
It feels very close to a thought people really have when a relationship suddenly ends. If the other person tells you one specific thing was wrong, at least there is a reason to hold onto. You may even start thinking that if you had changed it at the time, maybe the outcome would have been different. But “it wasn’t your fault” leaves nothing behind. It sounds comforting, yet for someone still trying to understand what happened, it only becomes another question: if the problem was not me, then what exactly was I supposed to do?
What makes it harder is that Mitsuru does not even answer this directly. Sakiko asks in the clearest possible way whether something about her was wrong, even bringing up the issue of children, and he still remains silent. He does not blame her, but he does not comfort her either. In the end, Sakiko is once again left to guess an answer from his silence.
It also brings to mind the Sakiko of the earlier episodes. She has always been searching for something she can actually deal with. If something has a reason, then maybe she can still do something about it. But what Mitsuru most often gives her is no answer at all. He does not clearly say no. He does not explain what he wants. He simply leaves the situation suspended and lets Sakiko do all the thinking.
Why Is Mitsuru’s Final Question So Hard to Answer? Because Sakiko and Itsuki Really Have Become Very Close
The most uncomfortable thing about the ending of Episode 6 is that Mitsuru’s question cannot be answered immediately.
Sakiko and Itsuki obviously do not see the past year as an affair. They gradually became close after the accident, beginning with investigating Mitsuru and Azusa together, then meeting at the laundromat every week, occasionally eating at each other’s homes, and eventually reaching the point where Itsuki asks whether he and Sho can move in. But if you list those things individually and imagine Mitsuru and Azusa doing exactly the same things, the first five episodes would probably have made most viewers think, “There is definitely something going on between them.” Once you realize that, the judgment starts to feel less comfortable.
So as irritating as Mitsuru’s question is, it touches something difficult to avoid: when looking at the same behavior, the judgment really does change depending on whose position you occupy. Because the story has followed Sakiko while she searched for Mitsuru, we naturally trust what she sees and find it easier to accept that she and Itsuki are simply supporting each other through the most difficult period of their lives. If the story had started by following Mitsuru and Azusa instead, the same few images might have grown into a completely different story.
In Episode 1, Itsuki said, “It’s probably time to clear away the filter you put over someone you love.” At the time, it sounded like he was warning Sakiko not to idealize Mitsuru. By Episode 6, it becomes clear that the audience has also been watching through one side’s filter the entire time. That does not mean Mitsuru, Sakiko, and Itsuki have done the same thing, nor does it mean Mitsuru can erase a year of absence with one clever question. The biggest difference still lies in that year: Mitsuru was the person who actively left, while Sakiko and Itsuki were the ones who continued living day by day without knowing what had happened to their partners.
So by the end, I still find myself more on Sakiko and Itsuki’s side. But the reason can no longer stop at “they were not having an affair, while Mitsuru and Azusa were.” Episode 6 deliberately makes that easiest judgment much harder to use. Instead, the fact that Mitsuru voluntarily disappeared for a year and actively cut himself off becomes the part that truly prevents the two situations from being compared in the same way.
What to Expect in Until the T-Shirt Dries Episode 7: Mitsuru Will Finally Reveal the Truth About the “Third Friday”
Episode 7 is scheduled to air on August 21 at 10 p.m. According to the official synopsis, Mitsuru will finally begin explaining what happened on “the third Friday.” That phrase has been hanging over the drama since Episode 1. Azusa regularly went out on the third Friday of every month, and Mitsuru happened to be traveling on the same bus with her. After six episodes of circling the issue, their actual relationship still does not have a complete answer. Episode 7 will finally begin addressing the most important part of that storyline.
Itsuki will also return to see secondhand bookstore owner Miyauchi and receive something Azusa left behind. The image in Episode 5 of Miyauchi holding that matcha-green notebook immediately comes to mind, although whether the two are directly connected will only become clear once Episode 7 actually airs. The preview also shows Sakiko pulling her hand away from Mitsuru and leaving the house, suggesting that Mitsuru’s return has not repaired their marriage. Instead, it seems to be forcing all the things they never discussed out into the open one by one.
By the end of Episode 6, the clearest change is simply who gets to ask the questions. For the first five episodes, Sakiko and Itsuki chased after someone who was not there, using addresses, phone records, and tickets to guess what Mitsuru and Azusa had done. Now Mitsuru himself is back. Just when it seems they can finally demand an explanation, he turns around and asks Sakiko and Itsuki: if two people traveling together is not enough to prove an affair, then what exactly have the two of you been doing for the past year?
That is what makes “証拠は？” such an uncomfortable subtitle for Episode 6. Sakiko has no evidence that directly proves Mitsuru and Azusa were having an affair. Itsuki never actually saw his wife betray him. On the other hand, Mitsuru cannot make every suspicion disappear simply by saying they “only talked.” And as for Sakiko and Itsuki, they know how they gradually arrived at the relationship they have now, but from the outside, doing laundry together every week, eating at each other’s homes, and even talking about living together could certainly be interpreted as something else.
So at this point, rather than rushing to find one piece of “evidence” that can settle everything, what becomes more interesting is how each person interprets the same events. For six episodes, the drama has placed fragmented clues in front of the audience, and we have spent a year guessing alongside Sakiko and Itsuki. Episode 6 suddenly reminds us of something irritating: those clues only ever proved that certain things happened. They never assigned a name to any relationship.
What we need to know now is no longer simply whether Mitsuru and Azusa were having an affair, but why they met regularly, why Azusa agreed to accompany him to Nagano, and what all these things that were kept from their partners meant to each of the four people involved. Episode 6 does not actually convict anyone. It only makes what once seemed like an easy question much harder to answer.
FAQ
Episode 6 is titled “What’s the Evidence?” Mitsuru suddenly comes home, bringing Sakiko, Itsuki, and Mitsuru together for the first time. Itsuki nearly punches Mitsuru but stops himself and leaves. Alone with Sakiko, Mitsuru reveals that he spent the past year living with his parents at his family home in Nagano and had asked his mother to pretend not to know him if Sakiko came looking. His father recently died, prompting him to think of Sakiko and return. Sakiko asks, “What was wrong with me? Was it about having children?”, but Mitsuru remains silent. The next day, the three confront one another again. Mitsuru says he asked Azusa to accompany him because he felt anxious about visiting his estranged parents, then ran away alone at a service area. He insists they only talked at the laundromat and were not having an affair. He then challenges Itsuki’s assumptions and ultimately turns the question toward Sakiko and Itsuki: what gives them the right to say their own relationship is not an affair?
Episode 6 aired on August 14, 2026, recording a household rating of 7.5% and an individual rating of 4.2% in the Kanto region according to Video Research. It tied Episode 5 for the series high at the time. The ratings by episode were 6.9%, 6.2%, 6.8%, 7.0%, 7.5%, and 7.5%.
According to Mitsuru’s explanation in Episode 6, he spent the year living with his parents at his family home in Nagano. The address in his phone memo was that house, and the person who opened the door in Episode 5 and denied knowing him was actually his mother. Mitsuru had instructed her in advance to pretend she did not know him if Sakiko came looking. His father recently died, which made him think of Sakiko and decide to return. The episode also reveals that Mitsuru has disappeared before: not long after he and Sakiko first met, he once went missing without contact for three months.
Mitsuru explicitly denies it in Episode 6. He says he asked Azusa to accompany him because he felt anxious about visiting his parents, from whom he had been estranged for years, and that he later ran away alone at a service area. He describes their relationship as nothing more than talking whenever they met at the laundromat. Itsuki does not accept that explanation, and Mitsuru responds by questioning whether Itsuki assumes any man and woman spending time alone together must be romantically involved. He then applies the same question to Sakiko and Itsuki.
Episode 7 airs on August 21, 2026, at 10 p.m. on TBS. According to the official synopsis, Mitsuru will begin revealing “the truth about the third Friday,” while Itsuki will receive something from secondhand bookstore owner Miyauchi that Azusa left behind. The preview also shows Sakiko pulling her hand away from Mitsuru and leaving the house.