In this chapter, we learn that nozomi has decided to go shopping with his friends. He tells us that they're going to have sex with each other, three times, and then he's going to go back to work alone. Nozomi says that she's sorry to bother him with the novel, but she doesn't want to make nakamura unhappy. She tells him that she saw something in the novel that she thinks is worth living for. He says that he'd like the novel to be a tool to comfort himself, but that it's always been weak, and now again, you rely on mura. She says that it would have been better if he had only spread misery, because it would've been better for him to have broken everything . She also says that the ghost of town has returned, and that the ghosts are returning ghost of maurice to the edge of town. She asks him to go out with her, and he agrees.