When the two of them return to school, they are both melancholy. The narrator tells us that he will never break off his relationship with the girl, but that he has come to hate her. He tells the girl that she is welcome to come home with him, but she should not be afraid to go out in groups. The girl tells the narrator that she has heard that a "degenerate" showed up again at school, and the narrator wonders why the girl does not hate him. He asks the girl if she is sick, and she says she is. She tells him that she feels strange in her new room, and he tells her that he heard that they were cleaning up their class room. He then asks her if she knew all along that she wanted to become friends with nakamura. She says that she did, and that she wondered how mura would react to her wanting to have sex. He reminds her that they made a "con tract" with each other, and says that they are "filthy fucking perverts." The girl asks him if he is okay in town, and when he says that he is, she asks him to wait for her. She then asks him why he hid what he had done from her, asking him to tell her what is going on in his head with her