This chapter opens with a discussion of the "weeping spouses rocks" , which are used to summon the dead. It is explained that the weeping spouses rock is a marriage ritual, but that it is not a "remedy" for the dead; it is merely a "hook" for people to move. The weeping spouses rocks, however, are not a remedy; they are merely "hooks" to attract people. The reader is reminded of the story of Hiromi's mother, who passed away and was not attended to by an ambulance.