The next morning, Hirokazu arrives at the apartment. He tells her that he's going out with some friends and that he wants to tell her all about the night they spent together. She's shocked that he would want to talk about such trivial things, but he tells her not to worry, because he'll tell her everything. He's not going to let her go, he says, because she's a good person and he doesn't want to hurt her feelings. He asks her if she'd like him to read her e-mails, and she says yes, but she wants him to do it right away. He says he'd be glad to give her a chance to speak to her properly, but that he is scared that he might do something wrong. The narrator tells us that he used to live by himself in high school, but his family never got along with him, so he moved to his grandma's house. Before he was born, he and the owner of the house didn't know each other, but now they do.