After a few days with Buchou, hotaru is back to her usual routine. He asks her to join him for lunch. He tells her that he has been working hard for her, and that it is time for her to go back to school. He scratches his back and scratches his leg, which means that he is only half-healed. He wonders if it is too late for him to return to school, but she tells him that she has decided to go to a party of her friends. She asks him if he will be there, and he says that he will. He then asks her if she is going to the party of a friend of hers, and she says that she will be, but that she is on a business trip. She then asks if he has seen her out clubbing, and when he says he has, she says she has seen him at a chain store, and asks him to get her number. She tells him she has grown so much, that it took her a long time to get accepted into school. She says she needs to hear what Buchou has to say, because she thinks things have been difficult for her lately.