The chapter opens with a discussion of the upcoming cul-tural fair, which is to be held in the same neighborhood as the school. Mikoto, the cook, is helping out at the fair, and she's very good at her job. The narrator tells us that he's been trying to hide his involvement in the fair from the reader for a long time, but now that he sees it, he thinks it's time for him to tell it to the reader. He tells the reader that he is a "juvenile delinquent" who shouldn't have been standing in the way of his work. He says that he just loves how he can depend on people like Miyoko to help him out. Miyoko tells the narrator that the night before the fair she was worried about him, and that she is the only person who worries about him. She's a first-year student, and Miyoko is popular, but Miyoko doesn't understand Miyoko's worries about her father's relationship with Tsukamoto