Now and again, we find ourselves in the middle of a conversation between a young woman named Mariko and a man named Mr. Tachibana. The narrator laments the fact that it's been a while since he fell in love, and the young woman laments that she hasn't even had time to fall for someone else yet. She says that she's too picky about sex, and that's why she can't fall in love with anyone else. She's bored with guys, she says, because they're just like the old guy she used to hang out with.