In this short scene, Hirokazu continues his conversation with Cossack. The two discuss the upcoming fire festival, which is to take place the following day. As they talk about the festival, they are interrupted by the arrival of a graduate student, who tells them that he has come to experience the festival as a folklore guest. The students are shocked to learn that the guest is a "graduate student folklore" and that the festival will take place on the same day as the traditional New Year's Eve celebration. As the two men discuss the possibility of the festival taking place that very day, they realize that they are in the wrong place at the wrong time.