This chapter's epigraph is from a poem by Hiroshi Sugimoto. It's about a girl who's trying to figure out how to play a game called "karuta" . In this case, it's a girl named Arata. She's playing against Hiroshi, who is playing against Arata's friend, Ban Ki-moon. Ban is trying to get Arata to play against him, but he's not having it. He's worried that Arata won't be able to pick up the cards that are in front of him, so he'll have to play with his left hand instead of his right. This is going to be a big problem for Arata, because he has no right to pick cards from the other side of the table.