The next morning, the narrator wakes up to find that his perfect boss has turned into a "ba ssorry" . He's afraid of thunder, which is why he's been sleeping in his boss's bed all day. The narrator tells himself that it's time for him to go back to sleep, but he doesn't want to wake up in the middle of the night, so he goes to sleep. He wakes up when he hears someone approaching. It's Mr. Sakuma, and the narrator wants to know what's wrong with him. He tells her that he threatened her with blackmail, and now he wants to help her because he knows that she's a mystery. She tells him that she admires him, and that she thinks that he devotes himself to his work, even if it means that he can't have sex with her.