While Etsuko and Kaizuka are arguing over a kid's book Etsuko is working on, a messenger who used to be a novelist and holds a grudge against Kaizuka shows up at the office.
A mogul author, Hongo, offers Etsuko a job to work on his essay. Seeing them together, Yukito becomes perturbed and scampers off.
Takehara assigns Etsuko a proofreading job for romance novelist Sakuragawa and tells her to do better than her best. Later, Etsuko finds out there's a surprising past between Takehara and Sakuragawa.
Etsuko is all excited about her new task - proofreading her favorite magazine - but she starts to lose her motivation when she sees Morio working enthusiastically as an editor.
