In this short scene, the two young guys are talking in front of a used book shop. They're talking about Tokiwa, who's having a good time at the karaoke competition. They ask who the other guys are with her, and they're surprised that they haven't been able to get close to her yet. They decide to come to the end of their year-end sale and pay for the hole they've just made in the ground. The narrator is all, "I'm sorry, I'm not the monster, or nothin' . Let's just talk over there." The narrator asks the guys to give him all the money they got from the sale. He's bummed that they don't know how to live without thinking about what happened to them back in the day. He wants to know how he can live as a "shameless little bastard" like them. They tell him to get some food to eat, and he says, "If you're going to be so pained, hurry up, and die already, scum, get some stuff to eat . . guess I oughtta croak" . He says he's been reading a book called "The Flowers of Evil" , translated by a guy named Daigaku Horiguchi. He asks the narrator if he knows the "flowers of evil," and the narrator says he doesn't. He just forgot himself. He tells the narrator that he used to read a lot in middle school, but he threw them away when he moved to this town. Now, he wants to borrow a book from the used book store and read it.