4.5/5. I really liked this volume. The story of the "Prince" was somewhat boring to me, but I LOVED the Takimaya x Izumi chapter! I love those two and I was happy we got to read about them as its' been a while since they've been the center. Izumi has developed nicely and his scenes with Takimaya are pretty sexy.
The chapters with Aoe and Naoya are really good as well, and they're short and just focus on their every-day love life which is good as most of their stories are always over the top dramatic.
Finally, the chapter with Shibuya Sei and his Sensei is pretty hot as well, although Sei basically blackmails in order to have sex. I would love to see Sei more developed but the next chapter is the series finale, so I doubt it, but pretty hopeful.
This volume was a collection of short stories - two were completely stand-alone, the rest focused on Reiji and Naoya or on Takamiya and Izumi.
I didn't care much for the stand-alone stories. Especially the last one was rather odd, with the student assaulting his teacher. But the ones that concentrated on the regular characters were quite touching. Too bad that the whole volume wasn't just about them.
I can't believe there's only one more volume left! There are so many more stories the author could tell, but she won't. Either way, this is a great volume that explores more of Jin, who up until this point has been sort of a side character, or in the case of Katsuki, a secondary character. Now he had his spotlight with the violet-eyed prince spoken of earlier in the series. It was also nice to see more of Takamiya and Izumi again, since it had been a while since they were in the story.
First story with the foreign princess visiting the B&B was ok. But the following stories with Takamiya/Izumi and Reiji/Naoya were priceless! Both relationships have now made a complete circle to a happy ever after ending...their futures together have been declared. Loved it!