The chapter opens with the narrator's dream in which she dreams of her childhood friend isshikifuji. The narrator wishes she could see him again, but he has caught a cold and won't be able to come to school that day. He tells her she can't skip school and that he'll let others care for him sometimes. She's worried about her feelings for him, but she doesn't know how to express them. She wants to stay friends, she says, but wants to be something more than that. She asks him to bring her something she forgot at school. He does, and she tells him that she came to see him for love, but that she wants him to stay as her friend forever.