The chapter opens with a conversation between hotaru and chan. chan tells hotaru that he's back from New York and that he doesn't think he'll get a proposal from him today. He's worried that hotaru is going to propose in the middle of the night at the New York airport, which would make for a really wild night. He also tells chan that everyone is using their own "bacterial cultures" to create natto, which is a kind of yeast-like substance that makes a person's body smell good. . He says that he hasn't missed hotaru as much as he thought he would, but that it feels like half a year has passed since they last saw each other. Hotaru says that they're going to stay up late tonight, but chan says that love's all about what you're in your heart, right? . he says that if they are still together, he can't ask a 27 year old woman like chan to live with him, because that's not what hotaru wants. The fortune teller says that the woman is a man and that she's wearing a fancy dress, which chan thinks is pretty cute. He asks chan if she is a woman, and she says that she is. She tells him that she knows her stuff, facing Russia, and that it's her job to tell him what's good and bad in his life. She also says that chan has only one chance in life to make a good decision about marriage, and he has it all to himself. He thinks that the sight of a man proposing to a woman is supposed to be a beautiful thing, but then he sees the man in a tracksuit and thinks that he must have aged a bit. He wonders if some of his friends haven't made the same decision, and says that some of them have. He adds that right now, chan's got a boyfriend, who likes him for who he is, and even today , he didn't care about getting married.