The chapter opens with a conversation between yoshida and Harima. Harima asks Tamura if he's worried about his feelings for her. Tamura tells her that she's right, and that she should be worried about her own feelings for him. He's not worried about Harima's feelings for Tamura, but about the fact that they're trying to push him into a fight with her. He doesn't want to face her now as a man, he says, because he forgot that he was supposed to be with her at the fair, and she said that she would see him only if he agreed to meet her in person. He tells Harima that it's all a big mistake, and he hopes that she won't try to fight him, too. He says that he'll be rooting for her, too, because she was acting like an adult when he got mad at her before. He also says that she shouldn't be looking for a fight, since she was just acting like a kid at the sports fair. He adds that he is glad that he has a fight lined up with her, because it means that she is not going to try to pick a quarrel with him. Reluctantly, Harima agrees to go back to school.