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Plot
As Arata returns to the table, Ryō notes that he is a actually nice person despite sounding selfish, referring to his earlier plans to keep his distance from others and play it safe until the end of the experiment and make sure he gets the new job. He says he knows of Arata quitting his first job and that he thinks he did it too because of his niceness, causing Arata to have a brief flashback of some kind of tense situation in the job.

Arata changes the subject to his surprise at the best student in the school forgetting her lunch money. Ryō explains that the position of class representative that comes with being the highest-scoring boy or girl in the first-day tests brings with it many responsibilities that many would not want to take on. However, in return the class representatives get to wear a silver pin on their collar or necktie as a mark of their status, and also get all their school expenses covered, including lunch in the cafeteria. The reason Chizuru did not bring money was that she does not usually need to pay for her lunch, however the silver pins for the new semester have not been decided yet.

Though Arata keeps getting irritated by Ryō’s continuous teasing, Ryō says he hopes he would rely on him more in the future as they are adults while the people around them are high school students, which Arata understands. When Arata asks Ryō to stop using honorifics with him (he has been calling him Kaizaki-san) he immediately moves to first name terms and asks Arata to do likewise, which he bluntly refuses.

When the school day is finally over, Arata is anxious to get home as soon as possible and smoke a cigarette. However, he does not get too far from the classroom before Ms. Amatsu reminds him of their upcoming talk in the staff room due to the cigarette incident that took place before the morning tests.

Trivia

 * The events in this chapter took place on April 8th, 2013.