The narrator reflects on the events of the previous school year. He realizes that his friend, Natsume, was always fighting with him for no reason. She was always laughing at him and pointing at him when he fell to the ground. He wishes that she would yell at him, but she is already smiling at him. He feels sorry for her because she is just a friend. He tells her that he went to class and Oshima told him that he had gone after a butterfly and that no one had seen him since. He says that Oshima is going to make him fail again and that he has no intentions of fixing his own problems. The narrator asks if he went camping with Mitchan, and he says that he might have been late. He asks if Mitchan came with him, and she says that she did. She says that Mitchan told her that her life was easy and that she had to experience heartbreak sometimes in her life. She wonders why he looks so happy