When Yozo reaches high school he goes to a school near his family. He gains popularity with his school mates quickly because of his funny and clumsy personality. His teacher is aware that the class would be better without Yozo but he cant help to laugh whenever Yozo does something to satisfy the class quite funny.
One day when Yozo tried to impress his class again by launching himself over the bar in his military training class. The whole class was satisfied and laughing until a boy named Takeichi called Yozo out for wanting attention from the class. Yozo was envious that Takeichi had realized that he was doing all these acts for the satisfaction of his classmates. Yozo ended up hating Takeichi and thought about harming him but never did.
Yozo tries over and over again to invite Takeichi to his house but Takeichi continues to give him a blank stare then looks away. One rainy day Yozo invited Takeichi over to his house because of the rain and Takeichi finally agreed. When they arrived at Yozo's aunt's house Takeichi's ear started swelling. Yozo apologized and offered to cure his ear. While Yozo was curing Takeichi's ear Takeichi complements Yozo on how he must get a lot of girls. Yozo once again thinks about humanity. Just because Yozo had done something nice to another doesn't make him worthy of being loved.