The narrator tells us that he's going to have a meeting with R&D the next day. He's not sure if it'll be good or bad, but he thinks it's a good idea. The narrator says that he came to the school and saw someone "pop up" in front of him, like a "hallucination" . He asks the secretary if she's important, and the secretary says that she is. He then asks if the school has a well-furnished piano room, and she says yes. The secretary then tells the narrator that the company needs him, because the stock price of the company has dropped. The piano teacher says that the narrator is giving up the piano because he doesn't like school anymore. The teacher then asks the narrator if he'd like to go to music school, but the narrator says he'll go to the "no" school instead. He tells the teacher that he just realized that he likes business more than music, and that's why he wants to go into the business world. He says that his mother hates to see him give up his "dream" and his "happiness" , but she also hates to lose her "protection" from her father. He wants to protect his mom, too, and he tells the secretary that he has to protect her too. He goes on to say that he called his father to apologize, but that he had "cold feet" when he heard him say his voice, so he hanged up. He went to a remote town, rode a high-speed train, and then went to "what surviving tactics" he could think of.