The next morning, Benio returns to the office and finds that the manager is smoking and drinking too much. He asks the manager to bring in a new employee, but the manager refuses, saying that he is not going to use the new employee as Benio's replacement. The conversation turns to the manager's relationship with the manager, and Benio says that he has noticed that the two men have been "off" lately. Akari, however, says that she has not noticed anything different between them. She tells the manager that she used to have a crush on him when he was in high school, but that he told her that she should think about what she wants to do in life instead of what she did in the past.