Hiroyuki's mother has been reading her son's novel, and she's worried that he's about to dump her. Hiroyuki tells her that he doesn't care what she says, and that he just wants to speak to her. He's going to promote his novel, he says, because he loves her. Everyone in the town has read it, and they're all reading about him and his love for Hiroyuki. He tells his mother that he can't believe how much of the story was real, and how little was a lie. He says that if his mother hadn't been so obsessed with his writing, this whole thing wouldn't have happened. He also says that his mother would never have thought of him as a "fodder" for her novel, because being smart was the only thing he was good at. He asks his mother if she thinks that he thinks straight when he is with her, and her response is that she would have thought so if he weren't with her. She says that now neither of them has anything to lose, and he can put his passion for writing in his novel so that she won't think of him anymore. She asks him if he can imagine a real love story he'd written about her, which he says he can write. She tells him to go ahead and write something, and then she asks him to tell her what he hopes for in a love story. She's sorry that things were hard on him without her fainting, but she says that she didn't want him to inherit a hospital because she was worried about him. She adds that she knows that she'll never be able to get what she wants back from her mother, because her mother is yukina , and because her father is "head over heels for her" . She also tells her mother that her mother