At the beginning of the second chapter, the narrator tells us that the tutor and his students are waiting for him. He tells the narrator that he did everything possible to make the students successful, but in the end, they couldn't achieve anything. The narrator asks the tutor to remind him to take care of his health. The tutor tells him that he barely has any talent, but he is lucky enough to be an official. He says that he didn't want to please others, and that being an official means that you have one thing that is meaningful. He wonders what the tutor is doing now that he has finished compiling the school's annual report.