The next morning, the two men are back at work. Aoba is exhausted from the day's work, but he is eager to get back to work. He tells his friend that he has accepted a hard challenge from another customer, and that he looks forward to working again with him. The two men argue about whether or not he should have been bullied, and Aoba points out that if he had been bullied by someone else, he would have been a better match for a sadist like him. He says he has been thinking about this for a long time, and he realizes that Aoba has sold himself as an arrogant, sadistic dom, akari. He feels that his friend is playing the part of a pain in his own ass. He wants to leave, but Aoba tells him that he does not have to do so, as he is the one who has to rile up Hisaya. He asks the men to go eat, but they refuse, saying that they are too thin to eat. Akari says that he is craving meat, but that he needs to eat more, because he is so thin that he will not be able to eat the rest himself