This chapter opens with a conversation between hotaru and kun. It's been a while since hotaru has spoken to the artist, and now he's asking if he'd like to move into his house with him. He's worried about how he'll be able to keep up appearances with other men, and he wants to be alone. He tells us that before he met kun, he never had to worry about what other men thought about him. Now, he worries about being alone. They go to the woods to visit an old classmate at the art museum, where they're supposed to meet up with buchou, a friend of theirs from art school. The two of them reminisce about their days at art school together, and they both agree that it's no big deal that hotaru is two years older than kun. They're both psyched to see each other again, because they've seen each other in the past two years. They joke about how hotaru looks like his wife sometimes, and that's because she's got her head "in the clouds" . They talk about how they both like to write love poems, and when they write them, they don't make it to the girl they love. They both want to know if they can live with each other.