The chapter opens with a conversation between Tommo and Huck. Tommo asks Huck if he thinks about his sister. Huck replies that he does, but that he misses her so much that he can't stand it. Huck asks Tommo what made him fall in love with Natsuo, and Tommo says that he fell in love because he was always "trying to support" him. Huck tells him that he was "embarrassed to think about" now that he's fallen in love, but he was happy when he was younger. He tells Tommo to take care of his sister, rui, and daniela, and to "keep working hard"