The chapter opens with a soliloquy about the kiss. It's obvious that the two of them are in love, and they've been since the beginning of the novel. But now that the chapter is over, it's time for us to find out what's going on between the two lovers. It turns out that Kiriya has been working on a library committee for her husband, and she's worried that he's getting stressed out. Kiriya tells us that she just had a nightmare in which she had to do a lot of housework for him. She's not sure what the dream was about, but she knows that it was about the future. She decides that she'll make her husband organize his books so that he won't be stressed out anymore. She also says that she doesn't want to waste any of her precious life's work on something that's already in the past. She reminds us that we're writers, too, and that we shouldn't waste it on something we don't really need. She says that if she had a dream, she'd have woken up in the middle of the night to organize her books, but now that she woke up, she realized that she was in bed all night. She wonders if Kiriya went to sleep at a normal time the night before, because he looks like he'd been pulling all nighters. She thinks that he was asleep because he was tired, and then collapsed in the bed as soon as he woke up. Kiyana says that since she lost her hairpin, she has been trying to figure out why she didn't try to avoid the kiss, and now she has an answer: "rui is important" . This is the first time Kiriya's been able to come