In this chapter, we learn that Hiroshi has a crush on a girl named hayakawa, and that she is the girl he always admired during his middle school years. He asks her if she has a girlfriend, and she replies that she does not because she is afraid that her bond with Hiroshi might be broken. Hiroshi then asks her what her girlfriend's "taste" is like, and he asks her to tell him the name of her "girl friend" . She says that she has been feeling a little down lately, but that she feels better now that she spent time with him. She asks him to tell her about what happened with him today, and Hiroshi says that if he hadn't started crying, he might have tasted her friend's drool. He tells her that he would have liked to have tasted it if he had been in middle school, but now that he is in high school, he can't, because he has someone else he loves. He says that he wants to see the girl's taste, and then he tells her about a festival he is going to attend the next day.