The innkeeper tells the two young men that they have special permission to come to the inn because it's a "reservation" inn. The rooms are all private, and each room has a different profit. The room with the most profit is the one with the "love-knot-charm-bath." It's rumored that the god who used to rest there often rested there, and those who enter the hot spring will be tied up with a "strong fate," good or bad. The men agree to go to the bath, and the narrator tells them that they'll be "blessed with new virginity" when they're done. The narrator then tells the men to go eat, but they refuse, saying they have something else to talk about. The two men decide to go out for a walk, but the narrator says he can't go because he's having an argument with the other man.