Now that everyone is in the room, it's time to hold the vote. The two contestants have submitted their stories to the club members, who are going to read them during breaks in class. The rules are that the stories must be no more than 5,000 words in length. Everyone is supposed to put their votes in a box on the whiteboard, and the two contestants will be judged on their stories. They're both good at writing stories, but they're not very good at reading them. The narrator points out that the two of them don't write the same stories, so they'll have to compete against each other. They agree that the narrator's story is the best, but the narrator doesn't agree with the other's assessment of his story. He says that his story is "the essence of sci-fi" , and that the story of the other contestant is "just a benign slice" . He compares the two stories to a visitor next door and a visin-jext door, and he says that the visitors next door will get the votes because of their reading preferences. He also says that he's sure that the reader next door won't be able to judge his story fairly, since his story's description and tone are so impressive. The other contestant, however, is a lowly Japanese teacher, who's just trying to protect his secret from everyone else. He's got a lot to hide, he says, since he dated a teacher, which is why everyone is gossiping about him in the first place. He asks the narrator if he meant to say that he couldn't believe that he lost in the game, since the loser had to give up his punishment for writing his punishment, but that was just too one-sided. He tells the narrator that he overheard the two arguing that day, so he came up with a counter-measure.