On the 33rd day of his recovery, Tomoyuki continues to speak to his friend, Ukamoto, in a soliloquy in which he tries to make sense of the events of the previous day. He tells his friend that he had a dream during which he stayed up all night and wrote until he fell asleep. When he woke up the next morning, he found that his writing had been rejected in every contest he entered and that his body had rejected him as well. When they returned from the locker room, the upper-class men told him that he was doing a good job and that he should not worry about the loss of the team. He says that he has to keep working hard in order to make up for the team's loss, and that it is his fault that they lost. He reminds his friend of how he ran his heart out for his team, and he tells him that if he does not cry, then he should run just as hard as he can.