"... That is what it's like, isn't it? Do you know he let me throw him out of his own apartment? Technically speaking, at any rate." No, it is his apartment, and he was there first.

But this Okumura definitely knows him—or a version of him. Not even "your TV persona", which anyone should be able to figure out, but "the TV persona", as if its rigours are shared knowledge between them.

That again makes him want to place her later in the year, after his rise to fame. And yet she doesn't know Maruki. Is he elsewhere for her, like the other Okumura?—or is he not yet started at Shujin? "So if you don't know Kurusu-kun, is it fair to say you're from near the start of the year? April, perhaps?"