The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the school year, when Hiroyuki's first midterm tests were graded. Hiroyuki is still the best student in the class, but he's disappointed that he didn't score as high as he should have. He's also disappointed that his henchman, Ryoichi, is the one who's always getting the highest scores. He tells Hiroyuki that he'd like to be his friend, but that all he ever got from him was that he worked really hard. He says that now that he has gotten good grades at school, he realizes that he needs to get good grades to be friends with Hiroyuki. So he studies as hard as he can. Now, he says, he'll be a friend to Hiroyuki, even if he doesn't get the best grades. Why would he want Hiroyuki to teach him anything? Why would Hiroyuki want to study so he could become friends with him? He says he got hundreds of stupid mistakes in the first semester of the year, so he're not stupid anymore. He also says that if Hiroyuki wants to be a good student, he should get into top-three colleges.