lol, this scene really looks weird without context.
Kotoura’s birthday party.
Continuing from last week’s vacation episode, this one starts with a failed onsen plan. Then, Moritani shows her excellent skill once again: making dangerous food from normal ingredients. This time, her food does not kill its victims, it makes them drunk. Thus the context for the first screencap on this post.
Next, we have Manabe doing some part-time job to buy birthday present for Kotoura. To hide the surprise from her (as Kotoura can read minds), he always thinks of multiplication table near her. Pretty handy huh? So I guess there IS a way to protect our thoughts from Kotoura’s power.