This chapter opens with a soliloquy by Enoshima. Enoshima wonders why no one is going to the Natsumi festival. He wonders if everyone will pick up on the fact that Enoshima has grown up and matured into a young man. He also wonders if he has fallen in love with Enoshima, but Enoshima assures him that he has not. He has prepared a new body for Enoshima that will allow him to fly and shoot from the air. He is impressed by the new body, which he calls a "chachamaru" or spirit, and he wonders if it was hard for Ako to go through the trials and tribulations that she has endured. She must have gone through a lot, Enoshima says, because everyone is thinking about her and she is "just waltzing along" .