It's time for the next chapter, which opens with the narrator declaring that he's in love with someone. He's sure it's his wife, but he doesn't want to tell her what to think. He wants her to know that he loves her, and that he has been scheming up a way to help her. He asks the narrator to show him the documents he needs so he can make sure the train is convincing enough for the "middle-aged train aficionados" . He also wants to know how hotaru is doing with him. The narrator tells him that he just told a man he loved him, and the man laughed and left his uncle's insurance info on the train. He tells the narrator that the train broke down, and he had to go to work. He says that he treats hotaru like a family now, which makes him feel a little better about himself.