In the meantime, Shu's father has returned home. He's been drinking heavily, and Shu is worried that he's too drunk to talk to his father. Shu tells his father that he doesn't like him, but that he has never hated him. He says that his parents have always been strict with him, and that sometimes he feels like they don't even see him as his son, because they've allowed him to cry and act like a little boy. Shu says that he loves his father, and he wants to tell him the story of how he and his mother tried to get married, but they were rejected by their parents, who thought that Shu wasn't good enough for his mother. They threatened to cut him off if he dared to leave, and they even thought that his mother's pregnancy would be a failure. Shu praises his parents for making it possible for him to have a successful pregnancy, and his father for being so fragile.