The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the story, when the demon tells the girl that she is a "girl like any other" . The girl blushes and says that her demon boss has been saying this for a long time. She says that when she started to get used to being treated like a "normal girl" , she found shinomi to be a really good friend. Now, she says, she wants to walk home with shinomi every day. She's fallen in love with him and they've been going out together for three years now. The narrator says that he still feels nervous around her, so he bought a strawberry cake to celebrate the occasion. He asks her why she can't get into the program, and she says that she's "out of habit" and that she doesn't want to do anything like that again. She tells him that she feels "scared" and "ill" today, so she wants him to stop coming to her room. He says he's never done