Okay, Shmoop, we've got a new character. He's called "Kano Gane" , and he's here to tell Hiromi and Ishidai Tamura that they're in the middle of nowhere, and Hiromi's got a message for them: "I'm Hiromi, and I'm here to deliver a message to you and I want you to know that I am alive and well and that I love you very much. I've been hiding out in a little teahouse in the country for the past few days. I just want to tell you that I don't care what Hiromi thinks of me, because I love him very much, and that's all I care about. Hiromi doesn't know what to say, so he just tells him to chill out and have a good time. He also tells Hiromi that he'll be back soon, but that he needs to tell his father what's going on, because Hiromi is going to find out about it and bite his head off if he finds out