In a spaceship heading to the Earth, young Youshou is taking care of a young woman, Haruna, who is ill in the bed.
At Masaki Shrine, people are out to clear the petals of cherry blossoms covering all over the ground. Katsuhito finds a flower of camellia. It impresses him no less than the cherry blossoms and he makes a poem on it. Aeka and Ryouko are no mood for poem. They are in the middle of their routine quarrel. Tenchi does his part of the routine by trying to mediate between them. But today the girls react slightly differently. They want a clear answer from Tenchi; which of them does he want? Tenchi cannot answer such a question and runs away into the forest.
There Tenchi finds an old and magnificent camellia in full bloom. Then an image of Haruna, naked, appears on its trunk like an illusion. She speaks to Tenchi, "Tenchi... let's go". As if enchanted, Tenchi walks straight to the tree and vanishes. Aeka and Ryouko come to look for him but find no sign of him.
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Everyone looks for Tenchi under Washuu's direction. She investigates all the data available about him to guess his whereabout. Kiyone enters the Science Academy with a forged ID card made by Washuu. She is relieved to come out of the checking room only find her partner joyously shouting "How wonderful of Washuu-san. She can even forge the ID card of th Science Academy!" Sasami has come back in Jurai Star, welcomed by Azaka and Kamidake (the knights), and immediately heads for the Royal Room. Aeka and Ryouko are on a train running a rural area.
Back at the Masaki's, Nobuyuki comes back from the police after registering Tenchi as a missing person. It is already six months after he disappeared. Nobuyuki is very worried but Katsuhito is sure Tenchi is tough enough to survive.
Ryouko investigates the registry at the town office of Ooi. She meets outside the office Aeka, who has been looking for Tenchi separately in the town. Both has had no success. Ryouko thinks the sensor on her wrist is the only way to find him now however long it may take.
Aeka and Ryouko are working in a family restaurant. They have been earning money like this while traveling in search of Tenchi. Back in their hotel [ryokan, a Japanese-style inn] room, they encourage each other to find their man when they receive a routine call from Washuu. The lack of good news does not seem to discourage her much; she is sure about her calculations which tells Tenchi is in the town.
Tenchi is floating in the darkness with red petals flying around. He has been looking for Ryouko and Aeka in vein and doesn't even know where he is now.
It was a dream. He wakes up in a shabby room [Haruna's room is not only shabby but old fashioned. It's something a poor student would have used during 70's. Also all of Haruna's world is hued with brown/sepia colour]. Somehow he looks older and his hair has grown really long. He is only half awake and find a woman in the kitchen, cooking breakfast. Seeing Tenchi has waken up, she urges him get up; otherwise he will be late for school. She comes in to the room and open the curtain and the gives him a morning kiss. Now Tenchi appears fully awake, "Good morning, Haruna." [He seems not to remember the dream] Haruna comes out of the house to pick a flower from a camellia to decorate their breakfast table. An old woman of the next door offers her some persimmons.
When she comes back to the room, Tenchi is trying to make the TV set work as somehow it shows only noise. The breakfast is simple but Tenchi enjoys it, except for natto. He seems to remember that he told her he didn't like it but Haruna isn't sure [hinting the confusion in Tenchi's memory]. After breakfast, he leaves for his college. Haruna sees him off from the window.
Sasami is in the Royal Room. She is accessing to their network for information about Tenchi's location as told by Washuu.

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