The reader gets to know Ryuji Tsukazaki a bit more and his view on life and destiny.
The scenario in this chapter is Ryuji walking around in the park, waiting for Fusako to finish at work. He goes down to the pier for a little while and then sits int he park. He gets flashbacks from last night as well as his past. We see him struggle and having an inner conflict about glory and destiny. We know he has an inner conflict about the land and sea, wanting to not live in either places.
The chapter ends when he runs into Noboru outside the park.
"He hadn't been able to explain his ideas of glory and death, or the longing and melancholy pent up in his chest, or the other dark passions chocking in the ocean's swell. Whenever he tried to talk about those things, he failed." (pg. 38)
""It's not easy to find a woman who is willing to be a sailor's wife." (pg. 38)
"Those men have thrown opportunity away-there's no hope for them any more" (pg. 38)
"....I'll have to jump out of bed and set out alone." (pg. 38)
"Nor had he mentioned his concept of ideal love: a man lencounters the perfect woman only once in a lifetime and in every case death interposes- an unseen pandarus." (pg 39)
"And he has been certain that the woman before him was the woman in the dream. If only he had found the words to say it." (pg. 39)
"......his only memories of life on shore were of poverty and sickness and death, of endless devestation; by becoming a sailor, he had detached himself from the land forever..." (pg. 40)
"It was the sea that made me begin thinking secretly about love more than anything else; you know, a love worth dying for, or a love that consumes you." (pg. 41)
"She's just another body" (pg. 42)
"Ryuji was ready to die happily that very moment. Only when the cold tip of their noses brushed did he realize with a chuckle that they were two firm separate bodies." (pg 44)
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