My belated entry for episode 11, and as expected, Yuuto blindly follows Yayoi's order of not to stick around Haruka, and much to my dismay he even quit from being Milan's manager much to my rage [ damn, i wanna see more dynamic between him and the latter D: ]. Milan of course confronted him in demand of his reason for doing so, but only for her to be fed with disappointing answers from Yuuto. Also, this recent change in Yuuto's character had as well caught the attention of the ever nosy Mika's party, which soon led both Hazuki and Nanami-san to investigate over the current turn of event, and from which they came to unveil the plot set by Yayoi and co. Prior to the coming of February 14th, Yuuto received an envelope from Milan, in which contained a number of tickets to her Valentine's Live as well as a note telling Yuuto to attend her show. With these tickets he went on inviting Shiina and both their friends [ the former who previously addressed her concern of not being able to get the tickets before the concert date ]. Shiina was quick to notice the oddness in Yuuto, and soon asked him whether if he's going to invite Haruka along for the live, to which he didn't answer.
February 14th soon steps in, and it's the day for both Milan's Valentine Live as well as the Audition Contest in which Haruka has been set up to take part in; Yuuto otherwise had chosen to tag along with his friends to Milan's concert as he might still be honoring his wish of not to meddle in Haruka's path to happiness [ whatever- ]. Noticing Yuuto's attendance amongst the crowd, Milan suddenly took a break from her songs and went on for a series of words which provoked Yuuto's attention enough to get him back on his feet, and mustered enough courage for him to confront Haruka with his feelings. He then left the concert venue and made his run for the auditorium in which the audition contest were taking place, leaving Shiina to cover for his sudden leave to their friends.
Yuuto successively barged into the contest as the host were about to announce the result for the contest, and he later forced himself all the way to the stage while being mauled up by a team of securities under Yayoi's order, his persistence however is strong enough to overcome the obstacle and he broke his way off them with much ease. Now standing before Haruka, Yuuto soon confesses his thoughts of not wanting Haruka to debut as an idol [ stating it as a selfish wish of his ], only to be swept in for surprise as Haruka herself were entirely clueless over Yayoi's plot to initiate her idol debut. Yayoi is then forced to push on with her plan but before she could make any further move The Nogizaka Maid Team appeared just about time, along with Haruka's father [ lolwut Gendo Ikari get- ] who went on to proclaim that he has bought every single asset of the company in which Yayoi was an employee, thus putting the ultimate end to her goal. The episode then ends back at Haruka's mansion, with Haruka exchanging her Valentine present to Yuuto, who in turn gave her a surprise hug much to her megassa blushing >///>
There's the nice progress made evident in Yuuto's character for this episode; finally he's able to express his bottled-up feelings in proper fashion to Haruka [ took us long enough in keeping with that up D< ], and what's more cool is that he had done it right in front of a large crowd; score ten for no more shy-shy-ness heh- :D Nothing much remarkable [ as usual ] from this series even at this point of time, and all ends well just as how we may have expected, especially the long waited hug scene at the end of the episode of which I have been clenching my fists for it to happen all this while :D
