The Quintessential Quintuplets volume 9 - Negi Haruba

 The events of the summer break behind them, including the mysterious quintuplet that kissed Futaro, the girls come to realise they are going to third grade.

Bound on graduating, but also on keeping their own place, they go and look for jobs to split the rent and relieve Ichika as such.

Nino finds work in the bakery where Futaro works, while her "rival" Miku goes to the competition to learn how to cook, something she found out that, while still lacking skill, really loves doing.

The quintuplets are assigned to the same class as Futaro as school starts again, something apparently arranged by their father behind the scenes.  Their classmates are amazed he can tell them apart, even though he does it by their accessories and not because he recognizes their faces or demeanors.  With his birthday approaching, the siblings try to figure out what sort of present he would really like.

In the meantime, Nino started her job at the bakery of Futaro, but the first day they are already visited by a famous reviewer, MAY, who turns out to be Itsuki.  In the meantime at school, Yotsuba asks her sisters to be replaced as class officer, as since she and Futaro fullfil that role together, people start gossipping about them being an item.

During study at home, their dad comes in bringing along Takeda, the new number one student in Futaro's class, whom he wants to install as their new tutor.  But Futaro rebukes that his grades suffer because of them, claiming that not only will he let them pass the mock exam, but that he will end up in the national top 10 to boot.

Ichika decides to take her efforts up a notch, disguising herself as Miku and telling Futaro that Ichika likes him, in order to convince him to make him think she is the one for him.  As the exams come around though, the girls manage to pass while Futaro beats Taneka by ending third compared to eight nation wide.

He is officially rehired by their father as the tutor, but the next field trip is approaching... to Kyoto, where he first met one of them all those years ago!

Will he find out that not only he met one of the sisters before, but also which one it actually was?  Let's see in the next volume of The Quintessential Quintuplets!