Masanobu decides to deliver a circulation board to the Oda family who live next door. The cold days continue, and Masanobu has lost his energy, but his wife, Reiko, who lives next door, gives him rice cakes and regains a little of his energy. For a short time, Masanobu choked on his rice cake and fainted. He wakes up inside Reiko's kotatsu. Masanobu begins to doze off under the comfortable kotatsu, but he notices that Reiko is not wearing pants under the kotatsu...
