Evening of the same day. Taro had a bath—which technically shouldn't be called a bath, however called that so people won't be confused. Like, if someone heard them say that Taro was wiping his body with dry clothes, people will surely think of it as extremely weird.
After the said "bath", Taro was just laying flat on the ground, when he fondly remembered his conversation with Shivani and felt nostalgic about it. He was acting as if the conversation he had just hours earlier was something that happened decades ago, which was weird.
What was more weird was that the guy was down on the dirty ground that the plankton was yet to clean. Although he came to learn about that later on, he didn't shy away and just remained on the ground.