The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the school year, when Nemo is training to be a mage. He tells the reader that he is returning to school for a second year, and that his mother and father are worried about him. Nemo is wearing a traditional school uniform, and he tells us that he hasn't spoken to his mother or father in a while, but that he's more tense than he was last time. He says that his mom and dad have come to check on him, but he doesn't know if they saw him talking to fool. He also says that the smell of perfume reminds him that he smells like a rush puff man. He wonders if it's fate that they're both back at school, and wonders if Nemo's classmates are the same ones he used to be with. He asks if there's anything he didn't understand in the teacher's lesson, and the teacher replies that it was boring. Nemo wonders if the teacher might someday have something to do with his club, or if he should keep his distance from him.