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Unless I misunderstood what you're wondering about, it's his middle school friend who we never got to see the face of until now.

Pretty sure that was their point, that at least he's only dealing with one loud guy instead of being surrounded by a bunch of people reading while forming all these thoughts/mental noise.

It's because two panels before that Confucius was wondering if they stumbled upon a ghost market. The seller offering them samples of something that sounds like it comes from a literal ghost market made him basically exclaim "So it is a ghost market!"