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- While asleep, Kotarou experiences visions of Shia as his mother and a meeting with Misha as an angel. The next day, Hiroshi arranges a study session for his friends and Kotarou learns about Misha's angel exam. Misha's sister, Sasha, arrives on Earth to perform her duties as an angel to help the needy. She witnesses Takashi's love for Shia and uses her magic to have him confess to her. Shia is indifferent to Takashi's confession, while Kotarou experiences jealousy. (en)
- Shia asks her friends to help her make green curry for a customer. Kotarou comforts Misha after she fails her angel exam and encourages her to remember why she wanted to be an angel in the first place. Misha reminisces about seeing angel wings and shows Kotarou her wings, revealing her identity as an angel to him. Kotarou loses his little cousin, Shino, at an amusement park and has his friends help find her. The next day, Shino leaves the house to search for Kotarou at school. Later, Takashi learns his family's financial situation prevents him from applying to middle school and is comforted by Shia. (en)
- After attending Taro's funeral, Shia ignores her demonic instincts for life energy and dies as a result. Later, Sasha reveals to Kotarou his happiness is Misha's angel exam; Sasha then uses magic to show the past involving Kotaroh and Misha. The memories reveal that Kotaroh's family have been labeled as demons due and that Misha was Kotaroh's only source of comfort. When Kotaroh learns that Misha has been banned from Earth due to her interactions with him, he commits suicide in order to stay with Misha. His suicide causes Misha to become a fallen angel and she is imprisoned by heaven. Years later, Kotaroh reincarnates as Kotarou; heaven decides to give Misha a chance to redeem herself and makes Kotarou her angel exam. Kotarou is hurt by this revelation, believing Misha only sees him as Kotaroh. He runs away and finds Koboshi who confesses her feelings towards him. (en)
- In the memory, Taro and Shia's love for each other grow and the two plant an apple tree together; the two are then separated during a civil war. Years later, the two are reunited as adults and marry where they have two children named Kotaroh and Shino; Kotarou then deduces Shia is his great-grandmother. Kotarou starts to see Kotaroh's memories and learns of Kotaroh's friendship with Misha. Due to Taro's death, Misha pulls Kotarou back to reality. Kotarou confronts Shia and reveals his discoveries to her, leading Shia to regain memories. Shia reveals she left her family before her hunger forced her to drain her children's energy. Kotarou asks Shia to return home with him and resume their daily life, to which she agrees. (en)
- A boy named Kotarou Higuchi becomes acquainted with his new neighbor, the angel-in-training named Misha. Misha insists on being friends with Kotarou and after seeing the lack of parental care, plays the role of a mother. Misha follows Kotarou to school and becomes acquainted with his friends, Takashi Ayanokoji and Koboshi Uematsu. Kotarou and his friends later befriend an amnesiac demon girl named Shia. In Shia's desperation for life energy, she absorbs Kotarou's energy which puts him in a coma. Misha decides to save Kotarou by exchanging her energy for Kotarou's; Misha also decides to let Shia live with her after sympathizing with her loneliness. (en)
- Kotarou's class receives a new transfer student named Hiroshi Mitarai who begins a one-sided rivalry with Takashi. Hiroshi decides to compete with Takashi for Misha's love in the play The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Takashi is injured during practice and has Kotarou replace him in the play. Hiroshi's little sister, Kaoru, decides to avenge Hiroshi's honor by pranking Takashi, but falls in love with him instead. Later, Misha saves Kotarou from being run over by a truck. Kotarou reminisces about his mother who died saving him from a similar situation and is comforted by Shia. Shia's cat, dubbed as Nya by her friends, tells her to absorb some life energy from Kotarou in order to spur her lost memories. The next day, a magical reaction between Kotarou and Shia causes them to fall asleep. (en)
- In his anger, Kotarou decides to lead Koboshi on. Realizing the cruelty in his actions, Kotarou declines Koboshi's affections and confesses his feelings to Misha. Kotarou discovers that if Misha passes her exams, she will return to heaven; on the other hand if she fails, her existence will be annulled. As Kotarou struggles with his emotional dependence on Misha, he realizes Koboshi and Takashi's efforts to overcome hardships by themselves and accepts Misha's eventual departure. With this insight on the purpose of the test, Kotarou requests Misha to remove his abilities to see angels; after she does, Misha regains her status as an angel and Kotarou resumes his normal life. (en)
- A photograph from Shino spurs Shia's memories causing her to realize she's running out of time. Since Kotarou's energy is somehow linked to her past, Shia absorbs his life energy before leaving town. In the coma, Kotarou converses with a young Shia and sees a vision of an apple tree and his great-grandfather, Taro Higuchi. With Shia missing, Kotarou meets his great-grandfather to investigate and discovers a picture of Shia in a family album. Kotarou finds Shia in a snowstorm; Shia is encouraged by her Nya to absorb more of Kotarou's energy to regain her memories. Misha teleports Kotarou to safety but drops him inside his great-grandfather's memories. There, he witnesses Taro's childhood with Shia's past identity, Shima. (en)
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