The next day, the narrator is feeling "emotionally worn out" from the swimming pool incident, but he's still confident that he'll make it back to school on time. The narrator tells us that the girl in the kimono was probably Kusaka's classmate from school, and that he hates women like her. When the girl asks him if he was hurt, he says that he wasn't hurt, but that he can't see anyone else in the crowd. He's sure that someone walked across his field of vision when he fell, so he couldn't tell who it was. He doesn't know if it was a man or a woman, but it's clear that someone is looking at him. He wants to hear the man's voice when he returns to school the next day.