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| - The timeline for the nursery to pay their debts is running out and Kobato convinces the children to hold a bazaar in order to raise funds to prevent it from being closed. Later, Kobato meets face to face with Okiura, the debt collector and is told that he is actually Sayaka's husband.
- Okiura shows up again, demanding payment. Kobato gets very worried, and decides to wait outside his office until he speaks with her. She waits for a very long time, and when he comes out she asks him about his feelings for Sayaka-sensei. She passes out from the cold rain, and Okiura carries her back to the nursery, where Sayaka and Okiura are finally able to resolve the tension. Ioryogi stares out the window at the first blossoms of spring... time's up.
- Kobato finds a stray kitten and decides to take it home with her. However, Chiho and Chise say that their mother does not allow pets in the apartment and the three decide to look for a owner for the cat, but once they do, the two sisters begin to remember how lonely they feel, and it is up to Kobato to cheer them up.
- Kobato arrives in the Human World and takes on several tests presented to her by Ioryogi in order to prove herself worthy of the bottle. She has varying degrees of success in these tests, but after her singing calms a crying baby, she receives the bottle.
- Kobato gets to know more about Fujimoto's childhood through Sayaka-sensei.
- While advertising for the bazaar, Kobato finds a worn down Ioryogi who was struggling to protect his precious box of baumkuchen from harm.
- Kobato finds that Fujimoto forgot a report at the nursery and while looking for him at the university to give it back, she runs into one of his friends Domoto, a young man always prone to help others and worried about Fujimoto's anti-social behavior.
- Kobato and Ioryogi are in a park, when an old acquaintance of Ioryogi's, Ginsei, shows up. Ginsei steals Kobato's bottle, causing a fight between him and Ioryogi.
- Sayaka-sensei spots Kobato sleeping in a park and takes her to a friend, Chitose Mihara, who gives her a room in her apartment building. Kobato runs into a school girl outside and the next day after failing to help anyone, gets her umbrella stolen and runs into the school girl again, who lets Kobato borrow her umbrella. They meet again later and Mustumi sees her friend and crush Katsuragi underneath an umbrella with a girl. The next day, Kobato asks Katsuragi to share an umbrella with Mustumi. Mustumi meets him and after talking about it he agrees and they leave together, giving Kobato another konpeito.
- The Nursery is on Summer break and Kobato must help two girls whose friendship is strained after one of them begins to dedicate herself almost entirely to photography.
- Fall comes and Kobato and Ioryogi spot a giant Ginkgo tree. While collecting fallen leaves from the tree with the children, Kobato learns that it is to be torn down, and decides to look for a way to prevent it.
- Winter arrives and Kobato is warned by Ioryogi that she must accomplish her mission until next spring. To complicate matters, one of Okiura's thugs hangs at the nursery's door intimidating the children's parents until he collapses on the ground and Kobato takes him to a hospital along Domoto. Later, Kobato hears a surprising confession from Domoto.
- Ioryogi tells Kobato she must heal people's heart in order to fill her bottle. She runs into a man giving out tissues and helps him out by taking the whole box. While passing them out, she walks into the same stranger from before. Kobato follows him to say thank you, and ends up at a nursery. She finds out that the stranger, Fujimoto, works there, and spends the days playing with the children there. At the end of the day, she finds a boy from the nursery on a swing set. He tells her that his mother can't pick him up yet because she has to work, but asks Kobato not to think badly of her because she is working hard for his sake. Kobato praises his mother, healing his heart and earning her her first Konpeito.
- The due date of Kobato's mission has come, yet Kobato has not filled the bottle. She says goodbye to everyone except Fujimoto, who then find her in the park. When Fujimoto hears the truth about Kobato, he does not want her to leave, and a Konpeito comes out from him which fills the bottle. Kobato's wish is finally granted but it is more of a curse then a wish. Due to the contract Kobato must leave Fujimoto and go to the place she wished.
- Kobato meets a sad looking angel Kohaku in the streets and sees her again the next day with the man Kohaku loves. Kobato follows her and sees Kohaku's power of rain. After talking to Kohaku, Kobato is determined to make Kohaku and her lover go on a date. Kobato takes part in a lottery to get two amusement park tickets, but ends up with an crocodile doll. She bumps into Fujimoto, who gives her his tickets for the stuffed animal, and she hurries to Kohaku again, giving her the tickets. At the amusement park, another angel appears saying that Kobato only has a year before the magic bottle is taken away from her.
- Yomogi Nursery is having problems repaying debts, and Kobato decides to help out at Tirol Confectionery. She ends up playing detective when she and co-worker Yumi see their employer looking in poor spirits.
- Kobato and Fujimoto take the children to pick some potatoes when they spot a boy stealing some potatoes for himself. After tracking down the culprit, they find that he actually ran away from his home tired of his grandfather's yelling.
- The Nursery is torn down, leaving Kobato with a sense of despair. She knows that she wants to help out Fujimoto, but she doesn't have the time left. He walks away from her, thinking she was only pitying him after the accident he had, and her heart hurts but she doesn't know why. Usagi shows up with a message from heaven, and Ioryogi gets on his hands and knees to beg, "Just one more season."
- After Kobato leaves, everyone forgets about her. Fujimoto suddenly remembers her after seeing a Konpeito of hers, then rushes around asking people if they remember Kobato. All of them say no until he asks Kohaku. She tells him the truth about Kobato, and that they will surely meet again. Next there is a time skip of at least four years, when Fujimoto becomes a lawyer. When Fujimoto is asked to help with a case of inheritance, he meets Kobato at an old estate, who has forgotten the previous memories. Kobato's memory is later recalled by the Konpeito Fujimoto gives her and the song she is asked to sing. Finally we see all the lives Kobato touched when she was gathering Konpeitos.
- Sayaka falls ill and Kobato does her best to aid on her recovery.
- While trying to learn about reading a picture book to the children, Kobato meets the author of the book, who asks her to not read it anymore. Wondering about his strange request, she decides to find a way to cheer him up, and in the process gains another konpeito.
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