When he tries to teach his dull childhood friend his rough sketches, he is shocked to find that they have been rejected. He tells his friend that he has tried his best to teach him how to be a girl's manga artist, but he has not been able to do it well. When he had sex with Hii ragi, he was angry inside because she thought that his body was cheap and that she could have sex for the sake of the manga. He says that he taught her about "ness and sadness" and that it meant that she has been hurt. He feels that she is different from him because she is "sloppy and but but now" because she did not take into account the basis of story and human emotions in his work.