The narrator says that he's scared because he doesn't know what's going to happen tomorrow. He's hoping that tomorrow is going to be the day that things are going to end. He says that's the only thing that makes him want to go out tomorrow. The narrator tells us that he was proposing to the girl from the beginning of the story, and now he wants to marry her. He tells the girl that his name is "yamabuki" , which means "the kind of man" . He also says that the girl's name sounds like "ayakashi love," which is a Sanskrit word that means "to love." The narrator wonders why he hasn't told the girl about his proposal yet. He wonders if they're going to have a ceremony to celebrate the end of their relationship, and the girl says that she'd like to do that, too. She says that it's good luck to do so, because it means that the two of them are about to go on a journey together. She tells the narrator that she heard a "bam whoosh" and a "flicker purr purr" on the path they were going to travel together, and she wonders if it was a lucky omen. She asks the narrator if he'd wanted to greet the audience, and he says that if he hadn't known, he wouldn't have wanted to go to a party. He wants to finish writing a novel, which he started a few months ago. He decides to start by writing the first letter of the word "of the first word."