The next morning, the two of them go for a walk together. The narrator asks the two if they're going to follow him for the rest of his life, and the two agree that they'll follow him until he tells them to go to the after-party. When the narrator says he's going to go home, the latter says he can't go home because he needs to get some kotatsu. He's not going to hang out at the bar anymore, he says, and he'll go home to his friend, hazuki, who lives next door. He tells the narrator that he has been frowning all the time since he got kicked out of the mixer, and that he doesn't know why. He says that he just saw a "complete lack of hope" in his friend's eyes when they looked at each other back at the end of the party. He asks the narrator to thank him for letting him stay at the party, but the narrator refuses to do so, saying, "I don't understand what's so afraid of you. You're just trying to pull, but I'm not." The narrator tells the two that he saw something in their dream that made him feel better, and asks them to console each other.