In this chapter, we meet a young woman named haruhana, who is in love with a young man named murakami, who works for a meat and potato-stirbing company. . She tells us that she's thirty years old, and that she hasn't returned to her family's house since she founded the company. She says that she can't bear the idea of being a housewife, because she works so hard. She's also worried that the man she loves isn't as manly as she thought he was. She doesn't know how to get over the fact that he's such a good looking guy.