The episode begins with the home tutor, Yoshimoto Koya, going through his morning exercises while the Numata family eats breakfast. Father comments on how Yoshimoto has completely crossed the civil boundaries of being a home tutor - given he is always in their house very early in the morning - and although mother reports that Yoshimoto does not treat their son gently, he says they cannot break the tutorial contract because then they would have to pay a fine. While his older son Shinichi posits that the tutor may have cornered Father to sign the tutorial contract without reading the fine print, Yoshimoto finishes his exercises and Shigeyuki descends from his room. They both join breakfast.
Shigeyuki is not enthusiastic about going to school, but he forces himself to in order to rid himself of Yoshimoto, with whom he has a standing agreement that if he attends to school for a full week Yoshimoto will quit. The home tutor, who walks Shigeyuki to school, raises the hurdle of the agreement between them, saying that if Shigeyuki misses school for even one day, he will become Yoshimoto's dog.
吉本荒野（櫻井翔）は、沼田家次男・茂之（浦上晟周）が1週間続けて学校に通ったら家庭教師を辞めると約束。翌日、吉本は茂之の行動を監視するためか、早朝から沼田家に顔を出した。
