The chapter opens with the narrator wondering if he made the right choice with Mina. He's thinking about all the memories he has of her, and he wonders if she's still in love with him. He asks the narrator if he's on his side, and the narrator says that he was there once, too, and that it makes him think back. The narrator asks if the two of them had a fight after all, and Mina says that it was a little, but that they had a good time hanging out together. She says that hanging out with girls leads to social suicide, so the narrator should come with them to talk about the weather. He says that the rain is coming down, so he'll give the narrator a towel if he doesn't get dry. He tells the narrator that Mina and her lover had a little fight, and she said that marriage would have been a better match than a yukari, or traditional marriage, because it would have given her the freedom to do whatever she wanted with her life. He wants to make Mina feel like she has a lot of freedom, and so he gives her a bangle, which she wants wrapped in a zip-tie, and asks her what she would do if she married him. Mina says she'd love to marry her, but she'll have to work harder to be a good match for her lover. She leaves, thinking that Mina is seeing someone else. Mina asks if she needs to borrow money to get to where she wants to go, but the narrator tells her that she just needs to be alone. She asks if he needs to get going, but he says no, and they head off to dinner.