The chapter opens with the graduation ceremony, which is followed by an after-party for the graduating students. The narrator tells us that the next year, the second-year students will have to take entrance exams to get into the university. He predicts that he and his friends will be so busy that they won't be able to spend time with each other like they used to. He says that he'll have no time for love, and he hopes that he can stand by Sugata and her side one day. Sugata asks him if he brought his umbrella today, and Sugata says he didn't. He tells Sugata that he already told the guys in his club that they're going to take off before the rain starts, so Sugata can hear Sugata's response to his request. He asks Sugata if he still has time to talk to her, but Sugata tells him that he hasn't even spoken to her since the first day they walked home together. He thinks that Sugata is already too busy studying for the entrance exams, so he's going to run into her if it starts raining. He's sorry that he looks like a creep, because he was just trying to chat with Sugata for a little bit. He realizes that they haven't spoken much since then, and that he doesn't know what to tell Sugata. He wants to know if Sugata still has something to tell him, so they can talk on the bus ride home together, since they've both been studying for entrance exams. He suggests that they keep some distance between them, since neither of them will have time to spend alone time with the other. He admits that he likes Sugata too, but that they both have exams, which means that they can't spend time together for love. He explains that he wants Sugata to know that he loves her too, and now that she's in love with