"With their feelings for each other growing more complicated, Kei decides he needs to really get away from Chouko for a while and agrees to take a trip to the hot springs with his publisher. Chouko, meanwhile, has hooked up with a literary club that just happens to idolize Kei. When they find out he's going on a trip, they decide they are going to follow him. It's all a bit too much for Kei, who returns home and tries to lose himself in his work....