
When Sara enters, the house is dark and quiet, and she finds her mother passed out in the living room.

It's the reason he walks her home after school.Ī figure appears in the light of a street lamp, and the two run to Sara's house. After their conversation peters out, Joe asks about Sara's stalker. He excitedly regales Sara with the tale of his date with their mutual friend, Ryoko, as they walk home together. She notices a figure at the school gate- it's her best friend, Joe Tazuna. In the present, Sara Chidouin wakes up in a classroom late in the evening and decides to leave while there's no one else around. The man says they should hold a majority vote- his vote against theirs. Presumably, the listener says they wouldn't have picked if they knew someone would die, and the man says that's not how it works. The man asks whom you agree with more, and whomever you pick, the other person dies. The former loves majority votes, the latter hates them. He asks if the listener knows what a majority vote is.

The chapter opens with an unsettling conversation between the listener and the shadowy figure of a nondescript man.
