Summary

Freddie calls Ichiro on the phone and insists they go out together. Ichiro’s father gives him some money, which makes him feel a bit guilty, but they talk together and decide Ichiro will help his father in the store until he gets a job or goes back to school. Freddie is agitated and energetic, and first tries to arrange for prostitutes for the two of them. When that fails, he insists they play pool. He argues with the owner of the poolroom and breaks a pool cue over the table.

Then Freddie pressures Ichiro, who by now wants to get away from him, into going to the Club Oriental, which is where both of them were insulted and threatened previously. Ichiro reluctantly agrees to go for a drink. When they get there, a large man named Bull starts a fight with Freddie, dragging...