The chapter opens with a quote from a popular Japanese saying: "The forest of flowers keepers go bal." It means that people are interested in practical things more than aesthetic things. In other words, people are less interested in flowers and more interested in things that are practical. This is a reference to the fact that people tend to be more practical than they are aesthetic. The chapter ends with a soliloquy by Harumi, in which she says that she is in despair because contemporary society only looks at her by herself. She says that the whole time she has been at the motor show, people have been looking at the flowers and eating the dumplings instead of paying attention to what is going on around them. She thinks that this is because people are no longer interested in the content of their lives, but instead, they are looking at what is happening around them in the world. Harumi says that there are people in her class who choose to read a paper chocolate candy instead of a book because it is "solo and flowerless." She compares this to a world without flowers, where people cheer or go to a Disneyland instead of looking at flowers.