# E11 - Blume der Liebe
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GK9U3D20X/blume-der-liebe)
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***SIGN*** Please write the name of the candidate who you believe
is most suited to become the Blume der Liebe.
Kanoko Amamiya-san
Liebe Girls' Academy Blume Election Committee
**[01:39] (Flashback) Kanoko**
I will always be her friend.
**[01:41] (Flashback) Kanoko**
That's what I want.
**[01:43] Sumika**
* Kanoko-chan isn't trying to*
* break anything anymore.*
**[01:46] Sumika**
*But still, I want to stop her.*
**[01:48] (Flashback) Kanoko**
Love confessions or things
like that won't ever happen.
**[01:52] Sumika**
*There's nothing for me to stop anymore.*
**[01:57] Sumika**
*So what is it that I'm trying to stop...?*
**[02:01] Mai**
Have you finished counting?
**[02:02] Mitsuki**
Hime's final week count was 58 votes.
**[02:05] Sumika**
Kanoko-chan got 41.
**[02:07] Mai**
All right, understood.
**[02:09] Mai**
And now, adding up the student votes...
**[02:13] Mai**
Okay! Blume election vote count, complete!
**[02:18] Mai**
Here are the results.
**[02:20] Sumika**
Huh?
**[02:22] Mitsuki**
I understand.
**[02:23] Sumika**
Are you sure you got
the student vote count correct?
**[02:26] Mai**
Of course!
***SIGN*** Please write the name of the candidate who you believe
is most suited to become the Blume der Liebe.
**[02:28] Mai**
I don't think it's surprising at all.
***SIGN*** Sumika Tachibana
***SIGN*** Liebe Girls' Academy Kanoko Amamiya, 1st Year
***SIGN*** Please write the name of the candidate who you believe
is most suited to become the Blume der Liebe.
**[02:35] Sumika**
I'll let the other two know the results.
**[02:37] Mai**
Yes.
**[02:44] Mai**
Are you satisfied with the results?
**[02:47] Mitsuki**
Huh?! Um, no, of course I feel
I could have done better!
**[02:51] Mai**
I suppose. You won the guest votes, but...
***SIGN*** Total
***SIGN*** Blume Election Vote Tally
***SIGN*** Sumika Tachibana Mitsuki Ayanokouji Kanoko Amamiya Hime Shirasagi
***SIGN*** Mid-Election
***SIGN*** Final Week
***SIGN*** Guest Vote Total
***SIGN*** Student Votes
***SIGN*** Tachibana, Amamiya, Mikoshiba
***SIGN*** Shirasagi
***SIGN*** Ayanokouji
***SIGN*** Student Vote Total
**[02:54] Mai**
There was an upset with the student votes.
**[03:00] (Flashback) Kanoko**
Please leave me alone.
**[03:10] Hime**
Tachibana-san, are you finished
counting the votes?
**[03:13] Hime**
How did it turn out?
**[03:14] Sumika**
Huh? Oh... Um...
**[03:17] Sumika**
I'm the Blume! Support me
for the next year, okay?
**[03:21] Hime**
Congratulations!
**[03:22] Sumika**
Thanks. I'll make the official
announcement tomorrow.
**[03:26] Sumika**
I'll reveal the new Blume rule then, too.
**[03:28] Hime**
That must mean Yano-san got overtaken.
**[03:32] Hime**
That's too bad.
**[03:33] Sumika**
Yeah, you were rooting for Yano-chan.
**[03:35] Hime**
Yes! We're sisters, after all.
And I voted for her, too.
**[03:39] Hime**
But, still...
**[03:41] Hime**
Maybe I should have started
supporting her earlier.
**[03:46] Sumika**
Kanoko-chan, about all this...
**[03:49] Sumika**
Can we talk alone?
**[03:53] Hime**
Kanoko?
**[03:55] Sumika**
I just have a quick question.
**[03:57] Sumika**
I won't take up your time at all.
**[03:59] Hime**
If that's the case, does it have to be today?
**[04:03] Hime**
Kanoko doesn't seem comfortable.
**[04:06] Sumika**
Yeah. You're right.
**[04:09] Sumika**
It's actually not a "quick question" at all.
**[04:12] Sumika**
I don't want to make you
uncomfortable, Kanoko-chan.
**[04:16] Sumika**
I have to apologize to you,
about the things I said to you the other day.
**[04:22] Sumika**
I'm sorry. I want you to
forget I even said that.
**[04:25] Sumika**
I was wrong to ask you to give up.
**[04:31] Sumika**
I just wanted to tell you that.
**[04:34] Sumika**
Sorry to make you uncomfortable.
**[04:39] Sumika**
See you later, Kanoko-chan.
**[04:40] Sumika**
I hope we'll be back on
friendly terms tomorrow.
**[04:47] Hime**
Tachibana-san, you did something
to make her uncomfortable, right?
**[04:51] Hime**
If that's the case, aren't you
being a bit too one-sided?
**[04:55] Hime**
Kanoko's been behaving weirdly lately.
**[04:57] Hime**
Why can't you...
**[04:59] Hime**
Um...
**[05:02] Hime**
Could you be a bit more friendly
with Kanoko, please?
**[05:09] Sumika**
I see.
**[05:11] Sumika**
Hime-chan. Maybe that part of you is...
**[05:17] Sumika**
Yeah, I really want to talk today.
**[05:19] Sumika**
You know why we can't
do this tomorrow, right?
**[05:22] Hime**
Wait, how does that make sense?!
**[05:24] Sumika**
If you want me to be more friendly
with Kanoko-chan, we need to be alone.
**[05:29] Hime**
But she isn't comfortable with that.
**[05:32] Hime**
Besides, what did you say to Kanoko?
**[05:34] Hime**
It's almost like you're threatening her!
**[05:37] Kanoko**
Hime-chan!
**[05:38] Kanoko**
Stop, please...
**[05:41] Hime**
Oh...
**[05:45] Sumika**
Sorry, I was being too forceful.
**[05:48] Sumika**
Hime-chan, I know you're in
the dark about a lot of things here.
**[05:51] Sumika**
But that's simply my fault.
**[05:53] Sumika**
Please don't blame Kanoko-chan.
**[06:04] Hime**
Well, you heard her.
What do you want to do, Kanoko?
**[06:16] Nene**
Good work today. Can I use the dressing room?
**[06:20] Sumika**
Yano-chan should be alone in there,
so you can go ahead, Nene-san.
**[06:24] Nene**
Thanks.
**[06:28] Nene**
So the first-years left already.
**[06:32] Nene**
Oh, by the way, congrats on winning Blume.
**[06:42] Sumika**
Getting that reaction
with such little effort.
**[06:46] Sumika**
Not fair.
**[06:52] Kanoko**
Tachibana-san.
**[06:54] Kanoko**
About what you said... Are you saying
you won't interfere anymore?
**[07:03] Sumika**
Oh, good. You're talking to me again.
**[07:06] Sumika**
Have a seat. I'll listen to anything.
**[07:09] Kanoko**
Enough already. Please just tell me
what it is you want to say.
**[07:16] Sumika**
I don't understand what you want to do.
**[07:20] Sumika**
Like I told you,
**[07:21] Sumika**
I'm going to create a new Blume rule
where you can't quit being sisters.
**[07:25] Sumika**
So why did you vote for me?
**[07:28] Kanoko**
It's still better than *her* becoming Blume.
**[07:31] Kanoko**
It's wrong for Hime-chan to support her.
**[07:36] Sumika**
So, you're okay with my Blume rule?
**[07:39] Kanoko**
I am. If that's what matters to you.
**[07:44] Kanoko**
The only thing that
matters to me is Hime-chan.
**[07:48] Kanoko**
Let's stay out of each other's way.
**[07:51] Sumika**
I don't get it. You say she's important,
**[07:54] Sumika**
but you won't tell Hime-chan
the reason you voted that way, right?
**[07:58] Kanoko**
I'll just tell her I want to
support Tachibana-san.
**[08:01] Sumika**
Earlier, when Hime-chan was supporting
Yano-chan, you were the same.
**[08:06] Sumika**
You're always being jealous alone.
**[08:10] Sumika**
You want to continue being in love with
someone but still hide things from them?
**[08:16] Kanoko**
Now what do you want?! Are you
going to end up interfering again?!
**[08:20] Sumika**
Listen.
**[08:20] Sumika**
This time it's different. I want to help you.
**[08:24] Kanoko**
Help?
**[08:26] Sumika**
During the entire Blume period,
I was watching you.
**[08:31] Sumika**
I realized just how much you love Hime-chan.
**[08:35] Sumika**
You're always looking at her,
**[08:37] Sumika**
jealous of the people around her.
**[08:39] Sumika**
Every time I tried to stop
that love of yours,
**[08:42] Sumika**
I ended up making you cry.
**[08:46] Sumika**
But you keep saying you won't confess.
**[08:49] Sumika**
You want to hide that love from
Hime-chan too, and stay friends.
**[08:54] Sumika**
Doesn't that mean...
You're stopping your own love by yourself?
**[08:59] Sumika**
That's what I don't understand.
What's making you do that?
**[09:05] Kanoko**
Let me go—
**[09:09] Sumika**
I've been told I don't understand romance,
**[09:12] Sumika**
so maybe I'm just way off.
**[09:15] Sumika**
But if continuing to hide it is too tough,
**[09:18] Sumika**
I want to be the one who lends you an ear.
**[09:24] Kanoko**
Tachibana-san...
**[09:26] Kanoko**
You're too forceful.
**[09:32] Kanoko**
You're overly familiar,
never serious, the typical "gyaru."
**[09:37] Kanoko**
But you found out about Hime-chan...
**[09:41] Kanoko**
and you accepted that it was romance.
**[09:45] Kanoko**
Before you tried to end it,
you treated it as a real, existing thing.
**[09:51] Kanoko**
So, maybe it's okay with you.
**[09:55] Kanoko**
Maybe it's okay to tell you about Hime-chan.
**[10:00] Sumika**
Tell me.
**[10:03] Sumika**
That's what I said from the beginning, right?
**[10:09] Kanoko**
Hime-chan...
**[10:11] Kanoko**
can never love a person.
**[10:18] Sumika**
Never love a person?
**[10:21] Kanoko**
I'm Hime-chan's only friend.
She'll never make any other friends.
**[10:27] Sumika**
It doesn't appear that way.
**[10:30] Sumika**
Doesn't she have many friends?
**[10:34] Kanoko**
It's true that she's liked by many people,
**[10:36] Kanoko**
but she's just pretending to be friendly.
**[10:40] Kanoko**
Hime-chan doesn't show
true affection to anyone.
**[10:43] Kanoko**
It's even more true when
it comes to romance.
**[10:45] Kanoko**
People confess to her all the time,
but she turns them down and ends it there.
**[10:50] Kanoko**
Hime-chan has no interest in romance.
**[10:54] Sumika**
She doesn't seem like she's that cold...
**[10:58] Kanoko**
She never shows her true face.
**[11:02] Kanoko**
Everyone loves her for what they see,
**[11:05] Kanoko**
but Hime-chan never loves anyone.
**[11:09] Kanoko**
I've watched her quietly distance herself
from all the affection she gets from people.
**[11:15] Kanoko**
That's how she treats everyone else.
**[11:18] Kanoko**
I'm the only person
who's special to Hime-chan.
**[11:23] Kanoko**
That's why I'll never confess.
**[11:26] Kanoko**
I'll stay this way, as her friend!
**[11:29] Kanoko**
Nothing needs to change!
**[11:32] Kanoko**
I don't want to be "everyone else"!
**[11:39] Sumika**
So that's why you want to
maintain the status quo?
**[11:44] Kanoko**
Huh?
**[11:46] Kanoko**
I revealed it...
Hime-chan's precious secret...
**[11:50] Kanoko**
You won't tell anyone, right?!
**[11:52] Kanoko**
Nobody can find out!
**[11:54] Kanoko**
Not even Hime-chan!
**[11:55] Kanoko**
You said you'll help me, right?!
**[12:00] Sumika**
I won't tell.
**[12:03] Sumika**
You can trust me a little more than that.
**[12:06] Sumika**
* I wasn't going to make her*
* give up anymore, but...*
**[12:09] Sumika**
*Kanoko-chan's love is too fruitless.*
**[12:13] Sumika**
*If what she said about Hime-chan is true,*
**[12:15] Sumika**
* she gets to stay by her side, but at the cost*
* of hiding and repressing her love forever,*
**[12:23] Sumika**
*and never seeing it come true.*
**[12:26] (Flashback) Nene**
If she knows what she's getting into,
nobody has a right to stop her.
**[12:32] Kanoko**
Tachibana-san,
**[12:34] Kanoko**
you're saying "don't bring romance
into this" to the wrong person.
**[12:39] Kanoko**
Yano-san is in love with Hime-chan.
**[12:42] Sumika**
Huh?
**[12:43] Kanoko**
But it's weird. She won't get
turned down by Hime-chan.
**[12:49] Kanoko**
Hime-chan won't even notice.
**[12:51] Kanoko**
Hime-chan has been weird
ever since she appeared.
**[12:55] Sumika**
Yano-chan? But that was all an act...
**[13:00] (Flashback) Mitsuki**
I love you.
**[13:02] (Flashback) Mitsuki**
So that's what you were thinking back then.
**[13:05] (Flashback) Mitsuki**
I'm sorry I made you go through that.
**[13:11] Sumika**
*How stupid am I?!*
**[13:13] Sumika**
* That's why Kanoko-chan has*
* been so wary Yano-chan...*
**[13:16] Sumika**
*Watching Hime-chan change like that,*
**[13:19] Sumika**
* I'm sure it was difficult*
* for her to stay the same.*
**[13:23] Sumika**
*Soon, one of them would...*
**[13:25] Kanoko**
I'd like you to tell Yano-san to
not bring romance into this too,
**[13:29] Kanoko**
but it's too late for that, right?
**[13:32] Kanoko**
I understand that you don't want to
damage the relationships in the salon.
**[13:38] Kanoko**
Since we're both trying to
maintain the status quo,
**[13:41] Kanoko**
let's both refrain from taking any action.
**[13:44] Mai**
Phew, good work.
**[13:47] Mai**
The Blume period is over for the kitchen.
**[13:51] Nene**
Mai-san, are you aware of what Sumika
and the others are arguing about?
**[13:55] Mai**
Ah. Well, mostly.
**[13:58] Nene**
I only heard it's romance-related.
**[14:01] Mai**
Are you worried?
**[14:02] Nene**
Well, she's always driven by
concern for others.
**[14:06] Nene**
She never sees what she herself is feeling.
**[14:09] Mai**
Hmm.
**[14:10] Nene**
On top of that, she's trying to meddle
in other people's romance.
**[14:15] Nene**
I hope she doesn't go too far.
**[14:18] Nene**
I sometimes wonder what
she's even trying to achieve.
**[14:20] Mai**
Yeah, but that's how it is.
**[14:24] Mai**
I hope Sumika-san herself realizes
what it is she wants to do.
**[14:32] Nene**
Right.
**[14:35] Sumika**
Kanoko-chan, are you going to stay in love,
just the way you were?
**[14:41] Kanoko**
Of course. Why would I give up on Hime-chan?
**[14:46] Kanoko**
I won't change anything.
**[14:48] Sumika**
But still... There has to be
some way for me to help you!
**[14:55] Kanoko**
There's nothing more I want from you.
**[14:58] Kanoko**
Thank you for today.
**[15:01] Kanoko**
Talking to you helped me see better.
**[15:04] Kanoko**
I'll continue to not say
anything to Hime-chan,
**[15:07] Kanoko**
and no matter how much time passes,
that's how things will stay.
**[15:19] Sumika**
Are you sure that's what you want?
**[15:21] Kanoko**
Y-Yes...
**[15:24] Kanoko**
Because I'm the one who
doesn't want to end this...
**[15:31] Kanoko**
I won't say anything.
**[15:33] (Flashback) Hime**
If you don't speak out...
**[15:36] (Flashback) Hime**
If you don't speak out,
it's like it never happened.
**[15:41] Kanoko**
No. No.
**[15:45] Kanoko**
No, I don't want that, Hime-chan...
**[15:57] Kanoko**
What are you doing?
**[15:59] Sumika**
Then don't cry!
**[16:02] Sumika**
Staying silent, holding it in...
**[16:04] Sumika**
If doing that makes you cry,
then there's no point!
**[16:08] Sumika**
Maybe I can't help you.
**[16:11] Sumika**
But I won't let you cry alone!
**[16:14] Sumika**
That's right. I...
**[16:16] Sumika**
I want to stop you from crying alone!
**[16:22] Kanoko**
Why you? Not even Hime-chan knows.
**[16:28] Kanoko**
I can't even say it to Hime-chan!
**[16:30] Kanoko**
Why are you the only person I can say it to?!
**[16:35] Sumika**
I'm sorry. I'm the only one who
knew about your love, and yet...
**[16:41] Sumika**
I'm sorry I couldn't do anything
for you until now.
**[16:46] Sumika**
I'm sorry I left you alone.
**[16:53] Hime**
And those are the results.
**[16:55] Hime**
Sumika Tachibana-sama has been
elected Blume der Liebe!
**[17:03] Hime**
I'd like to invite her to give a speech.
**[17:21] Sumika**
Thanks to all of your support,
I was able to win the honor of Blume.
**[17:27] Sumika**
For that, I thank you from
the bottom of my heart.
**[17:29] Sumika**
That said... to be honest,
I'm still not excited for the job.
**[17:35] Sumika**
However, I gained support from not just
our visitors, but my kohai as well.
**[17:41] Sumika**
I must take this seriously.
**[17:44] Sumika**
I will perform dutifully
as Blume for the next year.
**[17:49] Sumika**
Mitsuki Ayanokouji-san.
**[17:51] Sumika**
You're honest
and take your job very seriously.
**[17:55] Sumika**
I find it's natural that you got so many
votes, and I'm quite proud of you.
**[18:00] Sumika**
Hime Shirasagi-san.
**[18:03] Sumika**
You're a hard worker with an innocent smile,
a bright light in this salon.
**[18:09] Sumika**
Kanoko Amamiya-san.
**[18:11] Sumika**
You appear quiet and
don't assert yourself at all.
**[18:14] Sumika**
But I learned that you have a strong,
beautiful core inside you.
**[18:19] Sumika**
I'd like to continue working
at the salon with all of you.
**[18:26] Sumika**
If, during that process,
one of us were to get hurt...
**[18:30] Sumika**
I want us all to support
each other through that.
**[18:35] Sumika**
There's one thing I want to tell you all.
**[18:52] Sumika**
Kanoko Amamiya-san.
**[18:54] Sumika**
I spent a long time trying to
figure out how to face you.
**[19:00] (Flashback) Sumika**
Please don't cry, Kanoko-chan.
**[19:02] (Flashback) Sumika**
If this still makes you cry,
what can I even do?
**[19:06] (Flashback) Kanoko**
I wasn't supposed to tell...
**[19:08] (Flashback) Kanoko**
I wasn't supposed to say
anything about Hime-chan!
**[19:12] (Flashback) Kanoko**
But if I don't say anything,
it's like it never happened.
**[19:18] (Flashback) Sumika**
You can tell me, since I already know
you're in love with Hime-chan.
**[19:27] (Flashback) Kanoko**
I'm in love with Hime-chan.
**[19:30] (Flashback) Sumika**
I already know. That's not news—
**[19:33] (Flashback) Kanoko**
I love her!
**[19:36] (Flashback) Kanoko**
I said it out loud,
for the first time ever...
**[19:41] (Flashback) Sumika**
I know you're in love.
**[19:44] (Flashback) Sumika**
If I know, it'll never be like
it never happened!
**[19:47] (Flashback) Sumika**
I'll be your special person!
**[19:52] (Flashback) Kanoko**
What do you mean?
**[19:58] Sumika**
Please be Schwestern with me.
**[20:07] Female Customer A**
Congratulations!
**[20:09] Male Customer A**
Congratulations to you both!
**[20:11] Female Customer B**
I always thought that was going on!
**[20:13] Male Customer B**
You two are wonderful together!
**[20:18] Kanoko**
Please don't interfere.
**[20:21] Kanoko**
That's what I'm becoming your sister for.
**[20:24] Sumika**
I'm just a big sister you can cry
with when you need to, that's all.
**[20:30] Sumika**
Come here, Kanoko.
**[20:40] Kanoko**
Thank you.
**[20:42] Kanoko**
Sumika-san.
**[20:49] Kanoko**
Hime-chan?!
**[20:50] Hime**
So things are okay, right?
You made up with Tachibana-san, right?
**[20:55] Hime**
I was afraid I was making
you tag along with me
**[20:58] Hime**
and keeping you from
making your own friends.
**[21:01] Hime**
So I'm glad you have a friend now.
**[21:21] Sumika**
Let's all get along together
as salon workers,
**[21:25] Sumika**
so that, over the next year,
not one of us goes missing.
**[21:28] Sumika**
That is my new rule as Blume.
**[21:35] Customers**
We love you!
**[21:36] Customers**
We support you!
**[21:39] Hime**
It's too bad you got second place,
**[21:42] Hime**
but I did vote for you, Onee-sama.
**[21:47] Mitsuki**
Of course you did.
**[21:50] Mitsuki**
You *are* my...
**[21:54] Mitsuki**
little sister, after all.
***SIGN*** Episode 12
***SIGN*** Welcome to Summer at
Liebe Girls' Academy!