The chapter opens with Hiroshi's reaction to his boss's eyes on him. Hiroshi licks his lips and tries to get away from his boss, but he can't. He's afraid of what he'll do if he gets into a fight with his boss. He tells Hiroshi that he's going to go to the editorial department to complain about an ad that ran earlier in the month, but they won't let him talk to them about it because they're worried about what Hiroshi will do if they find out that he ran the ad without talking to the department about it. He asks Hiroshi to leave the matter to Hiroshi, and Hiroshi says that's fine, but Hiroshi doesn't have any room for error. He also says that Hiroshi smells like liquor, which makes Hiroshi think that his boss is in love with him. When Hiroshi asks him what he should do, Hiroshi tells him that he has to settle the matter amicably. He says that the company's sales are about 190,000,000,000 yen a year, which is about 8 percent of their total sales. He wants to know if Hiroshi wants to take over the business, or if he wants to keep it for himself and his friends. He wonders if he should let Hiroshi go, and when Hiroshi replies that he would, he says that he thinks Hiroshi means the president of a foreign country. He then asks if he can have Hiroshi join the company, and he says yes.