The chapter opens with a conversation between Hiroshi and Amemiya. Hiroshi is complaining about the fact that he has not been invited to a club for the past few days because he is too busy with his work. He complains that he does not have enough money to go to the club and that his wife and he are not living together anymore. He also complains about his son, who does not come to visit him at all. He says that his son is too small to be a man in his own right and that he is trying to get him to eat dinner this weekend. The conversation turns to Hiroshi's attitude toward women, and he says that women are more feminine than men and spend more money on fixing their teeth than he does. The chapter ends with a discussion of how men only kiss women they have fallen in love with.