In this short scene, we learn that the three of them are in high school, and that they have all been "held captive" by the "idea of how things ought to be" . One of the girls asks the other two if they would mend her broken heart, and one of them says that she would have to teach her how, but that she'll pass. The other girl, however, is not so sure, and says that her father's last batch of medicine was a little bitter, and she's glad that he didn't take it all. She also says that if her father were still around, he'd make things better for her and her family. The girl says that the old man always had a "soft spot" for other people, and he could have made things better if he were around. She's not lying, she says, and her father could have helped her father if he still had a soft spot. She says that when a person is already in pain, he doesn't need "folk like us" to make things worse, but if his old man were around, then he could "drop the apothecary act" and put on "a kind face" if he felt that it would help. He could "make it better" if his dad were still alive, the girl says, if he was still around what? The girl tells her mother that she is out of snow-moon flowers and that she can tell her about it once she remembers it. She tells her mom that he's come to offer her his official marriage proposal. He asks her if she would do him the honor of doing so. He says that he and Asuka have been "betrothed" for a long time, and if he married him, he would not be with his family, not only that, but "squeeze chirp chirp