The chapter opens with a conversation between Sora and the boy who gave her the flan. Sora tells the boy that the story in the summer edition of the magazine is set in a place called hokkaido, which means that it's very hot. She also tells him that her mother was very dark before she died, and that she's going to forget her soon. The boy says that he's not sure what happened, but that it probably happened to him. He's a nice guy in the house, and so he leaves it to Sora to figure out what's happened