In this chapter, we learn that Irene is now in love with a soldier, and that she has rejected him. She is worried about how she will be able to keep her new lover, and she is also worried about her father, who is worried that his daughter will be taken by someone else. Irene is a strong soldier, but she also has a naive and kind nature, which makes her a good match for the soldier. She asks the soldier if he is extending the trench, and the soldier replies that he is. The soldier then tells Irene that the war is his nose, and he is the best soldier in the platoon. He tells her that she is very strong, but he is also kind and naive. Irene tells the soldier that she just wants him to do what he wants to do when he gets the chance. She tells him that she doesn't care if Irene was a friend or not, because all the people she met at the hospital were only acquaintances to her, because of her greed. If Irene had not rejected him, then she would have died a futile death, and it is no ones fault that she died. Irene says that she finds the soldier more regretful, and asks him what he is talking about. He says that he was there to protect a false rumor, which would eventually spread through the hospital. He asks if he can just touch him instead of touching him, and Irene tells him to be gentle with his claws, since she is using him to satisfy her lust.