The chapter opens with a conversation between the father and his son. The father tells his son that he is glad that his son is interested in exercise. The child asks his father why he is standing there, and the father tells him that it is because he wants to be a good father. He then asks his son if he has a second child, to which the child replies that he does have a third child, but he is not sure if it is a boy or a girl. He asks his daughter if she has another child, and she replies that she does have another child. He tells her that his back hurt during the wedding, and he hopes that it will heal soon. He also asks her to bring his son, kotaro, back to see him, as he has been invited to a session on "Balancing Family and Work." The session is being held by a company that is trying to find a way to "establish a path to the future business part-nership." The father asks to speak with his daughter, who says that she would like to check on her son, but that she is too busy to do so. She tells the father that she will bring him something for him to eat, as she is the only one at the session who can balance work and family. She also says that the section chief of the company is "so sneaky" as to why he forced his son to do such a difficult task. She says that he was forced to do the task because the president of his company was so busy with work that he didn't have time to do it like the other men in the company. She adds that the