Seishu finds that both his computer and cell phone have stopped working, so he decides to go to the village's general store to make a call. Along the way, he stops at a house where stray cats gather to lift his spirits. The man of the house hands Seishu a stray cat to hold, which then scratches him. Seishu discovers that he's allergic to cats, and then continues walking to the store where Naru, Hina, and Tamako's brother Akki are hanging out. Seishu asks to borrow the phone only to discover that it is an old rotary phone and Akki has to help him use it. After calling his agent, Seishu is so busy thinking about the next contest he plans to enter that he knocks over a basket of seaweed belonging to Miwa's father. He uses the incident to persuade Seishu to write a long phrase in kanji as the name of his new boat. Seishu panics at having to write without his usual tools or flat surface, but after Naru and her friends stick handprints to the hull, Seishu has no choice but to write over them. Miwa's father is impressed and gives him the seaweed as payment, only to grow angry again when he discovers that Seishu practiced writing on wooden boards he was going to use.