The narrator asks the conductor if he can accompany him on a train trip to a hot spring in Japan. The conductor says yes, but the narrator is worried that the man is crying over his broken heart. He asks if the man will go with him on the trip, and the man says yes. The narrator says that he doesn't have the money to go on such a trip, but he's willing to go anyway because he loves the hot springs. He's not sure if the trip will be free or if it'll be like a bus tour. The man says he'll go with the narrator because he wants to "mend your broken heart," and the narrator says, "you got it, boss, sponsor, ! to Nikko / Kinugawa here." The narrator is confused by the man's attitude, and he wonders what his girlfriend was like when he was crying over her.