Chapter 24

Scene 24 is the third chapter included in Volume 5 of Urakata!!

Summary
The Art Squad is ready to have fun and earn some money at the Shichikoku University's Halloween event! Everyone is busy participating in contests and dressing up while Ruka's stalker is still following her. Ranmaru feels jealousy for the first time as Ryuuji saves Ruka.

Plot
The Shichikoku Halloween is in full swing with a Halloween film screening, festive food, and contests and events with prize money! Ryuuji is naturally interested in the notion of earning money, and immediately gets fired up about it. Ruka notices this and delegates tasks to the other members of the Art Squad. She dresses Soh in a traditional Japanese costume from a famous novel after Soh refused to receive a zombie girl makeover from Maasa. Soh receives a compliment from Izumi. Ruka assigns Tomu to completing Soh's costume by dressing up as her servant, and has Maasa do on-the-spot SFX makeup. She sends Ryuuji and Izumi to the jack-o-lantern carving contest and gives Ranmaru a cool looking knight costume that they had originally made for the drama club. The mask which conceals his identity gives Ranmaru the courage to act different than he normally would.

While getting drinks, Izumi joins Ruka in watching Ranmaru. Izumi jokingly tells Ruka that she should have chosen him, as he would have treated her right. Ruka's stalker continues to secretly take pictures of her as Ryuuji tries to deal with curious kids while carving his pumpkin.

Izumi returns to Ryuuji and they discover that Ruka has a stalker thanks to Tomu who noticed (but mistakenly thought that it was his stalker). The members of the Art Squad and Ruka's younger brother, Yota (who disguised himself in a mask), all rush towards Ruka to protect and warn her of the stalker. However, the one who reaches her first is Ryuuji, who shields her. He scolds the stalker and turning to Ruka, starts measuring her face since she was spacing out. He finally says that her face was goofy but interesting, after which Ruka laughs. Ranmaru laments the fact that although he's dressed as a knight, he was unable to protect Ruka. He also feels the sickly feeling of jealousy well up in himself and thinks that he's never felt that way before.

Characters

 * Ranmaru Kurisu
 * Maasa Rokubu
 * Izumi Samura
 * Tomu Tenba
 * Ryuuji Gouda
 * Ruka Enjoji