After the climactic incident during the festival we are sent to a completely new locale 3 years later. Takao and Nakamura have been forcibly separated. Takao is now living with his parents in the suburbs of the big city and they mostly act like a normal happy family. Takao is in a new school and a typical middling student. And while he's as awkward as ever he's made some friends. Even more intriguingly--Takao may have found a girl to open up to. As with Nakamura this girl can see there's more to Takao than meets the eye. But this time she's the one who reintroduces him to literature...