Puberty ~I'll Try To Be Honest~

Puberty ~I'll Try To Be Honest~ is the fifty-third chapter of the To Love-Ru Darkness manga series.

Summary
One day at Sainan High, there is a usual accident between Yami and Rito that collide, and Rito ends up grabbing her butt after lifting her skirt. Yami then attacks him while Nana and Mea observe the scene, and Mea comments on her big sister to be still her usual self.

Mea explains to a confused Nana that Yami would to be better friends with Rito, and they should support it for the sake of the harem. However, Nana tells Mea to don't get Yami involved. They then talk with Momo who suggests to just checking things out for now because there is the risk to get the opposite effect with Yami. Mea is surprised to see Momo so cautious and asks if something happened, but Momo denies it, saying she's just planning out strategies for the future.

Afterwards, Mea sees Rito talking with Professor Honekawa who asks him a favor. Mea then comes to Yami at the school's library and informs her that the next day, Rito will be tending to the flowerbed behind the north building after school replacing the prof Honekawa who doesn't have the stamina for it. Mea tells Yami that the flowerbed is big and suggests that she too helps him. Yami asks why would she do it and that Rito could ask someone if he needs help. Mea then says it could be a chance to become better friends with Rito, and Yami blushes, saying why she would to become friends with that boy. So Mea explains her reason that she likes him, and Yami overreacts, shouting that nobody could like a pervert who keeps tumbling over, groping, and undressing her. Yami then leaves while Mea admits that Momo was right.

Later, Yami is washing in the Poka Poka Hotspring thinking about Mea's words when suddenly, Mikado, Tearju, and Oshizu appears. Tearju is amazed by the spacious bath and Mikado comments that Earth is on the cutting edge in terms of variety of pleasure. Oshizu then spots Yami, and Tearju is happy to meet Yami and runs towards her, but she slips and hit Yami with her big boobs. Tearju asks sorry while Yami tells her to stay quiet because it's a public bath.

They then take a bath in the onsen, but Yami would go out, and Mikado asks her to take some time together. Yami is annoyed because the woman is pushing her big chest on her, and Mikado tells Yami not to concern about the size because she has Tearju's genes and hers will get big too. But Yami says that she's a clone and not identical to Tearju, indeed is not clumsy as the woman. Mikado admits that Tearju has been clumsy since when they were students.

Oshizu suddenly asks them if they have been in love in their student years and explains that she wants to help a friend (meaning Haruna) to confess to someone she likes, but Oshizu hasn't experienced romance either, so she doesn't know how to help. Mikado tells it's useless asking Tearju because, even if was she popular, she was interested only in biology. Mikado then recalls an occasion when she presented Tearju with a boy, but she started to babble about living organisms and he ended up exhausted (and this happened with other guys). Mikado teases Tearju that she's still alone at her age, and Tearju responds it's the same for Mikado, but the doctor tells her that there are men in the universe who'd come running to her if she wanted. Mikado then suggests Yami to seize her chances, but she leaves out telling her she's different and Oshizu wonders what's bugging her while Mikado tells her she's reaching that age.

Later, in her spaceship, Yami is playing with a doll of Rito (created with her hair) and thinks about Mea and Mikado's words.

The next day, Rito is working on the school's flowerbed and talks to phone with Momo who offers her help but Rito tells her to help Mikan with shopping instead. Rito continues with his work picking some mini tomatoes when Yami appears and asks what's he doing. Rito is surprised to see her and worried when she uses her powers, but Yami instead just picks all the tomatoes. Yami then tells she'll help him because has free time.

Rito is confused because she is supposed to be still angry about the incident of the day before and starts to fear that she'll kill him once let his guard down. Yami feels that the atmosphere is heavy and tries to talk about something fun. But she starts to talk about vital spots of the human body and this increases Rito's concern. Embarrassed, Yami tells him to forget about it and thinks there are no fun arguments to talk about. Rito then asks if she's troubled about how to finish him off and Yami grabs him, calling him dense.

Yami tries to split out that she wants to be friends with him, but suddenly appear Tearju who asks for sorry because she didn't notice her love problems and Yami can ask her for some advice. Embarrassed, Yami tells her that nobody is in love, but Tearju trips and grabs Rito who, in turn, ends up having Yami put the watering can in her panties wetting her private part. Yami gets angry, but she stops herself from hitting Rito telling him this time was Tearju's fault, so she will not take his life. Yami tries to tells that next time she'll become friends with him, but she leaves before the end of the sentence and Rito interprets it like "next time", she'll kill him.

Trivia

 * The public bath, from the first series, reappears for the first time in To LOVE-Ru Darkness.