Summer slips away into autumn, gradually creeping into the cold winter months. Shiki experiences her first snowball fight this year 'Tsumiki-san is

very

insistent about the game, Megumi-san takes his cue to hurl the first snowy projectile directly into the back of his sister 's head, and everything goes downhill from there.

Especially after Satoru-niichan suddenly decides to join in ' by grinning and dumping an armful of snow directly on top of Shiki.

The snow itself is ice-cold against her exposed skin, and the chilly winter air is freezing. But somehow, despite everything, it 's still so

warm,

for some reason she can 't quite discern.

Shiki ends up forming an impromptu team together with the Fushiguro siblings against Satoru-niichan, halfway through the snowball fight. Her cousin has both size and reach on them, and he 's

fast.