Okay, now we're introduced to a new character. It's none other than "Takase" , and he's just arrived at the festival. He's bummed that his friend, Hiroyuki chan, didn't show up for the festival because she got a cold, but he doesn't know how to react to this news. He thinks it's weird that he and kanda are acting like a couple while Hiroyuki isn't there. He wants to know why they're pretending to be a couple when they really aren't. He asks if she'll hold hands with him, and she says no, but then she realizes that she's holding hands with someone else. Okay, then we get to the part where we find out that Hiroyuki's not really into the whole "playing around" thing. He says he'd rather just pretend to be alone with kanda than be with someone who's clearly not into him. He wonders if she would hold a hand with someone other than himself, and then he asks if anyone else would do the same thing with him. Huh? Nope, no one would. Hiroyuki is all, "I don't care what you say, I'll just pretend like I'm alone with you" . He then asks if he can ask kanda to confess to him, or if he'll have to make a joke about it. He realizes that if he were to tell kanda how he really feels, he would be humiliated, and the two of them would have to stay cool with each other.