In this chapter, we learn that urabe is in love with a girl named hayakawa, and that she has broken off her relationship with a man named Tsubaki. We learn that the girl, who we now know as e, is the same girl who we first met at the beginning of the novel, and we also learn that she is the girl we first saw naked at the end of the first chapter. The two of them are now in love, and Tamura asks Tamura to taste the girl's "drooling" . Tamura, who has never tasted anything other than her own vomit before, is shocked to learn that this is the first time that a girl has ever tasted someone else's.