After school, Akutsu asks the other boys what they want to play after school. They tell him to shut up and not to play with Ruri. He tells the boys that he's going to decide whether or not they're worthy of Ruri or not. If they fail, he'll never see her again and if he fails, she'll hate him. He's an idiot, he says, and he has no future. He wants to play base-ball, but he can't because he practices harder than anyone else. If the current baseball-playing population of Japan is about 800,000 people, and there are about a thousand, then he practices the most of all of them. He says that he wants to hang around Ruri because he believes he studies the absolute most people in the world. He doesn't want to be nice to Ruri, but if he studies hard enough, he can become nice to her tomorrow. He promises to apologize to her the next day.