In this chapter, we are introduced to a group of "30 something best friends" who have just gotten into a "party women fights" . They are all "country middle school girls" who used to be "care era" , and now they're getting into "a fight" with one another. They're in a hotel in Hakone, a town in the north of Japan, and they've just gotten a raise. The girls decide to have a little "party" together, and one of them, "pink," tells the other girl, "I'm starving all right, I'm getting my raise all right ! . . I know my girl, and she's coming to know that I am a big eater, and that I totally starve her selves like that, and when she says that in interviews, she doesn't look it, but she says it's just a lie, and supplements, and I guess so ." The girls start to joke about how they were "class mates" all through their high school years, and how now they are "clouded with doubts" about their future. They joke about the fact that one kilo of body fat equals 2.2 pounds of body weight. "I gained a kilo," they say. "What's i gonna do? I'll be waiting there with booze on, his wife was hurried bo fwip, it ." "What if," they muse, "what if that's one way for you to live yourfe ?" .