It's the middle of winter, and the narrator is getting dressed for work. He's got a bunch of new clothes to wear, but he's not happy about it. He doesn't like the fact that the narrator's shorts are shorter than the shorts of the other manga artists. He also thinks that it's a shame that he has to wear clothes that aren't made out of cloth. The narrator says that he works for another artist, which means that his clothes are cuter than those of other artists'. He says that if he wanted to hide his job from his family, he'd have to hide it from them too. He goes on to say that sports are easier for people to talk to, so they're more likely to talk about things that are less taboo. So if you're a sports fan, you might want to hide your job from your family, too. So be careful, he says. He adds that he never thought his bench coat would fit so well, but now that he wears it, he thinks it'll be useful. He tells the narrator not to worry about his mom coming to visit, because he can change his life any way he likes. He wants to see the narrator in class, so he says he'll show her the fourth-grade wall, or the age-ten wall. The fourth-graders play with character-themed toys, so the wall between the shonen and the seinen world is like a wall between a child and a licensed toy. The kid who plays with the licensed toy is the same kid who's playing with a character in the manga world. The artist who works with the kid is the one who focuses on the story and setting, not on the characters. So the kid who works on the kid's shonen series will grow up to be the same age as the kid that's working on the girl's seinen series. But if the kid wants to go lowbrow, he can do it in a magazine. But he can't do it because the kid won't tell his mom about it, because she's going to freak out when he shows up alone.