The next morning, the narrator runs off to work at a hotel in the city. When he returns, he finds that his friend, a student at the same school, has gone to bed with a woman in the same hotel the night before. The girl, named kana, tells the narrator that her friend is acting normal, but that she has noticed that he is acting even worse the next day. She tells him that her mother has told her that she cannot play with him anymore, and that she will not tell anyone about it