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With Yumi's instruction Nikaro apologizes to Liyun for collapsing the day before and Nikaro starts to get annoyed with the way Yumi is treating him. When they do the ritual bathing they get into a staring contest and Nikaro earns a measure of respect from Yumi. She explains her plan to try and contact the spirits, eventually Nikaro leaves the spring while they are stil insulting each other.{{book ref|yumi|12}} Afterward they arrive at the shrine in the villiage and Yumi gets Nikaro to say the six ritual prayers. Yumi has to poke him to keep him awake once thier finished and Nikaro attempts to stack stones, failing miserably.{{book ref|yumi|13}}
After Nikaro eventually falls back asleep they arrive back in Nikaro's world and Yumi tries to explain to him what he did wrong, eventually she decides she'll have to teach him. Painter remembers the
Yumi and Akane go shopping and Nikaro just follows behind, eventually they leave and Yumi takes up Akane's offer to hang out with her and her friends [[Izzy]], [[Tojin]] and [[Masaka]].{{book ref|yumi|15}} They go the the [[Noodle Pupil]] and Nikaro decides he doesn't want to be around his friends and goes to the front counter. [[Design]] comes out and drops a bowl of noodles in shock as she sees Nikaro and thinks he is dead.{{book ref|yumi|16}} Nikaro and Yumi pretend to help clean up so that they can talk with her, they explain to Design what was happening and their theory that Yumi is from the star. Design explains how Yumi is very invested and says she will try to help, but that it is more up [[Hoid]]'s alley. Who happens to currently be frozen in time. Eventually they go back to Nikaro's apartment and he tries to keep her awake with a [[Hion]] program, but she was determined to get back and do some work.{{book ref|yumi|17}}
Nikaro and Yumi go back to her world and Yumi prepares Nikaro to apolagize to Liyun for their failure as they do the ritual bathing. Nikaro is a little annoyed at Yumi's strictness after feeling like they were starting to connect better. Through Nikaro Yumi explains to Liyun that they will need practice and time to restore her skills. Later at the shrine Yumi starts to teach Nikaro by picking up stones and trying to find its center of gravity and how it could be balanced. Yumi explains they will likely spend days practising this.{{book ref|yumi|18}}
Afterwards both Yumi and Nikaro are tired from a full day of teaching, they fall asleep and go back to Nikaro's world. While Yumi takes a shower Nikaro plays around with learning to control the 'souls' of his clothing. Yumi is able to youch the Hion lines in the thermostat to heat the room, they discuss plans and Nikaro doesn't think its a good idea for Yumi to try and find the [[Liyun|Stable Nightmare]]. Nikaro gets a letter saying he's on a month of unpaid leave for neglecting his duties. Painter starts to teach Yumi how to paint bamboo in case of an emergency. They practise for a while and Yumi tells Akane she is studying when Akane invites her out with friends.{{book ref|yumi|19}}
After eleven days, Yumi decides Nikaro is ready to start stacking stones, Nikaro is able to make a few small stacks and admits Yumi's training was helpful. Yumi explains that they will need more complicated stacks to attract spirits, so they continue to practise. Yumi joins in with Painter by stackign the souls of the stones, Nikaro notices she seems very passionite about it. He also realizes how difficut the experiance must have been for her and starts to emphasize with her more. They soon notice a disturbance and find that the scholars of the [[Institute of Mechanical Solutions]] in [[Torio]] city have arrived with a machine that can stack rocks.{{book ref|yumi|20}}
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