Episode 3/Season 2

"Senpai... Were You... Listening to What I Said...?" (センパイ... さっきの... 聞いてました...?) is the third episode of the second season of the Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san anime series and the fifteenth episode overall.

Plot
After having taken a nap in the art class room, Nagatoro received a text from Sakura and went to her friends in order to have a "dazzling girl talk", however while exiting the room she accidentally forgot her smartphone behind, prompting Senpai to go looking for her to return it. Once he reached the first year's floor, Senpai realized he didn't know what section Nagatoro was in, however a girl helped him asking who he was looking for and, due to not knowing her by surname, what was her first name. Embarrassed Senpai admitted to himself that he didn't knew, then however he remembered that her friends called her "Hayacchi", causing the girl to realize who she is and told him to look for her in section C. Along the way, Senpai saw Gamo-chan and Yoshi came out of their class and went to the cafeteria for lunch. Not wanting to be caught, the boy hid in a closet inside section C, just in time for Sakura and Nagatoro to return in it alongside Nekoba and Rabi-chan and starting to talk about the latter having recently started dating someone in the baseball club. The conversation quickly switches over what types of boys each of them are into, and when they urged the reluctant Nagatoro to answer said question too, she answered that her type of boy is simply "someone who's fun to be with". Eavesdropping, Senpai suddenly remembered all the fun times he and Nagatoro shared and remained speechless. Just then, Nagatoro noticed her smartphone was missing and Sakura suggested she probably left it in "the club room", causing their classmates to ask if the reason she attended that place so much lately was a boy; both Nagatoro and Senpai blushed and the latter panicked causing a noise that drag the girl's attention to the closet. When Nagatoro went to open it, she found Senpai inside and, despite at first being visibly mad at him, the girl invents an excuse to distract Sakura and her classmates dragging Senpai out of her class. Despite mocking him for how creepy he was hiding in the closet; she sweetly thanked him for bringing her the smartphone and then asked if he heard what she said. Ashamed, Senpai replied he had no idea what she was talking about and ran off, leaving her red faced.

Later that evening, Senpai trained for the school wide marathon of the following day by running at night, in order not to perform badly in front of Nagatoro, however during said training he accidentally twisted his ankle a little. The following day while running, he was soon approached by Nagatoro, Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Sakura who proposed him a race. He tried to refuse saying he'd rather run at his own pace but the group try to persuade him telling that it could be like in the fable of "", thus they won't let their guard down, to which he joke that they're more like cats than hares. Right at that time they saw the President overrun them all dressed in her bunny suit since cosplaying was allowed. Thus, the girls get motivated into "beating the hare" and, after Senpai wished them good luck as the President was one of her class top athletes, Nagatoro reminded him that is the tortoise who should beat the hare, thus meaning he was the one who must race her. Although he was skeptical, the girls supported him saying they would have poured their power on him, forming a line to push one another in order to booster his speed, however after arriving a crosswalk Nagatoro and Senpai are separated from the other girls due to a traffic light. After Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Sakura told them that they should keep going and would definitely catch up with them, Nagatoro and Senpai proceed noticing that they should be around the halfway point. The girl noticed and complimented how much Senpai had trained for the race, though not without mocking his style of run. Then, the boy sprains his ankle and explain to a worried Nagatoro that he twisted it the previous day while running, prompting her to take him under her arm in order not to let him behind, saying they would have kept going until they reach the school.

While walking side by side in order to finish the school marathon together, the gir compared their situation to a war movie scene, when two soldiers get separated from their unit, one of them is wounded and the other refused to leave him, saying they would go home together. Smiling, Senpai noticed how kind Nagatoro could be despite always messing with him, describing her as a mystery. After a while, noticing how in pain Senpai really is, Nagatoro asked him to get on her back. Embarrassed the boy told her that she doesn’t need to feel responsible for his ankle, to which she replied that they'll go faster that way stating that she would be able to carry him with ease, eventually managing to convince him. Despite feeling a little guilty for riding a girl's back, Senpai described Nagatoro as amazing for managing to carry him with such a small body. Then, however, he noticed that she was actually struggling and asked her to stop stating that he doesn't want to go on if there's even a possibility that she might get hurt. As Nagatoro blushed, Gamo-chan reached them, complimenting his line, and, together with Yoshi and Sakura, helped carry Senpai in a sort of human cart quoting that "a tortoise might be slow, but if you give it a booster, then it can fly". Racing all together in said formation, they managed to reach the President however, as she was still faster than them, Gamo-chan told Yoshi to run in front of them using her almost superhuman speed to act as a windbreak and increasing their speed, managing to narrowly beat the President, albeit getting disqualified by the teachers because of their formation.

Two days after the marathon, Senpai became worried of having offended Nagatoro due to having eavesdropped on her speech with her friend, because she stopped to came to the club room and hadn't texted him either. The boy went asking Yoshi and Gamo-chan about it, prompting the latter to reveal him that she simply got a cold but had recovered pretty quickly and would return to school the following day; then Gamo-chan asked Senpai if he knew where Nagatoro lived and when he replied affirmatively, ask him to visit her and bring her some printout in her place. In the afternoon, Senpai went to Nagatoro's house and was approached by a young woman who, after mistaking him for a thief, introduced herself as Nagatoro's sister Misaki and invited him inside.

Main

 * Hayase Nagatoro
 * Senpai
 * Gamo-chan
 * Yoshi
 * Sakura
 * President

Minor

 * Misaki Nagatoro
 * Orihara

Background

 * Rabi-chan
 * Nekoba

Trivia

 * This episode is the adaptation of Chapter 58, 56, 57 and 59, however there are a few differences:
 * In the manga the marathon happened before Senpai locking himself in Nagatoro's classroom and mistakenly overheard her "girl talk"; as he believed that she had stop visiting the art club due to having offended her, while in the anime it is set in between that event and him wondering why she stopped visiting.
 * After seeing the President run in her bunny outfit, in the manga Sakura blushed and has a lustful grin, while in the anime she is as stunned as everyone else.
 * When Nagatoro and Senpai are separated from the other girls due to the traffic light, in the manga, the girls are standing next to a building with a couple of vending machines in front of it, while in the anime the building does not feature them. Additionally, in the manga, the faces of Nagatoro and the girls in the scene are drawn with only two dots to represent their eyes, while in the anime, their faces are drawn in more detail.
 * When Nagatoro helps Senpai walk and compares it to a movie, in the manga, they are shown walking on a pathway with a wall on Nagatoro's right and an apartment complex to the left of Senpai. In the anime, the wall and apartment locations are switched.
 * As Senpai wonders about Nagatoro's actions while walking alongside her, in the manga, it shows two scenes from the previous chapter: Nagatoro calling him slow while also telling him that he could win if he keeps up and then her and the other girls pushing him from behind. In the anime, it shows the scene from earlier in the episode where she calls him slow, followed by a scene where she hugs him from behind in the first episode of the season and then rubs her wrist on his cheek while they were sketching at the zoo in the previous episode.
 * When Nagatoro enters the classroom to chat with the girls, she shows them a juice box called "Kamego Juice Royal Tomato Juice". The name is a reference to the Japanese company, which specializes in tomato juice and other tomato-based food and beverages.