Seishu's agent and only real friend Takao shows up drunk at his house with prodigal calligrapher Kosuke Kanzaki carrying him. Upon realizing that Kosuke is the younger calligrapher who beat Seishu in a previous contest, Miwa and Hiroshi try to get him to leave. Naru inadvertently helps out by giving Kosuke a ball full of stinkbugs, which he breaks open. As Kousuke and Takao leave, Seishu tells the others that he knew who Kosuke was, but already moved on.
The next day, Kosuke visits Seishu's house and shows him all the magazines and interviews that Seishu did in the past as his inspiration, though Seishu feels only embarrassment when he hears his own lines read back to him. Kousuke begs him to return to Tokyo with him, saying that Seishu's art has gone downhill since he came to the island. Seishu has another breakdown, as he feels unable to reconcile writing for a prize with writing for his own satisfaction, when Naru and Hina start throwing paper planes made from the pages of Kosuke's magazines. After that brief interruption, Seishu reiterates his decision to stay in the village for now.
Later, Seishu finds that the magazine pages with his interviews have spread across the village as the villagers all line up at his door for an autograph.
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