In this chapter, we learn that the protagonist's dream is to hop a scrapyard in the southern part of the city, where he's staying with a girl named Poyomi, who has been missing for three days. The protagonist asks the boy if he knows the guy, and the boy says that he does. The boy tells the protagonist that the guy belongs to a local black market broker, and that he heard the protagonist talking about a tower to be built on top of a nearby tipharne. The kid says that the tower was crazy, but that the surface should learn to co-exist with the tipharine, because there is no law about how high a tower should be built. The guy tells the boy that he was born on the outskirts of town, and he'll keep him alive for a year, if he can talk about his dream. The dude says that if the protagonist still wants to talk about the dream, he can come back next year, and if he doesn't, then he can kill him or set him free. He says that, if the kid wants to continue, he should come back the next year. The shopkeeper says that this is a gift from the radio, but the protagonist says that it's not like he can believe in anything. He's never believed in anything, he says, and now he can't even believe that the man who sold him a ride to the scrapyard is still alive. He tells the shopkeeper that he has come to understand that the dude is already dead, because he was already crawling on his belly through the dream. He wants to fly a paper aeroplane, too, and draw a sword, too.