The narrator and the other students at the school greet each other. The narrator asks the students to shove their names in front of the others so that he can say hello. The students agree, and the narrator tells them that the music school recommended him to them. He tells the students that he will be playing music that will make people think, and that they should be able to play the piano well enough to make them think. He says that the piano reminds him of the sun-flowers of old times, but that boys need to start somewhere before they can do well. He also tells the story of how his teacher once told him that it is impossible to be a good pianist because the piano is like a mirror. The music students want to be musicians too, he says, but they are afraid that they will be tainted by the piano. He adds that even the great pianists like Mozart and Beethoven had to start where they wanted to start. The other students are impressed by the narrator's talent, and he tells them to tell the teacher that they like him. The two students begin to talk about the teacher and student relationship. The teacher is in love with the student, and she has just given in to her mother's charms. The girl is a private school student named Igawa San, who has just been reborn. The teachers are in love, the narrator says, and it is clear that they have a special rapport. He wonders if the teacher is getting scared of the student. He asks if the student is afraid of the teacher, and Igawa says that he is. He then asks if he thinks the teacher would be scared by the student's cute private school girlfriend, and if he would be okay with that. Igawa tells the narrator that the teacher chose his pieces so that the students would be playing them, but the narrator cannot figure out why he chose the pieces he did. He thinks that the