Chapter 24 Summary

The Second Middle School offers many clubs for the students such as riding, rugby, judo, baseball and rifle. The riding club appeals to H, and he plans to join. Before he can do so, H receives a message from Furuta, the student who beat H. The message tells H that Furuta wants H to join the rifle club. H tells the student to go back and tell Furuta that he is not interested in the rifle club.

Furuta comes into H's classroom the following day to ask him why H wanted to see his gun the day before. H replies he wanted to see how the bullets in the gun were fired. Furuta tells him that he can learn about that and a lot more if he joins the rifle club. Furuta explains that if H decides to quit the riding club, he...