It's been a while since Hiroyuki has been back in Paris, but he's feeling pretty good about himself. He's invited to orchestras all over the world because of his work in the city, and he thinks he'll soon be the conductor of one of them. He also thinks that Hiroyuki is a "failure" because he won't be able to compete with the likes of Deschamps and Marc-Antoine Boulogne, who are both young and handsome. Hiroyuki's got a crush on Elizabeth, the daughter of an owner of a building in Paris. She's pretty, rich, and pretty, but she's also a spoiled brat who doesn't know how to act like a grown-up. He thinks she looks like a "spoiled jerk" who's "average looking actually" . He wants to know why she'd want to know what's going on with the conductor, and she says it's just because she wants to see him perform. She also says that he should just shut up and listen to what she has to say instead of trying to get him to do stupid things.