The chapter opens with a discussion of the weapons and ammo that the Mechaniks have brought with them from the battlefield. The chapter's title refers to the fact that the weapons will be used in the upcoming battle, and the chapter ends with a soliloquy by the protagonist, in which he compares himself to a "brain-chip inside my head" . The protagonist explains that he has suspected that the brain-chip has been growing inside his head ever since he met the robot in Tiphares. He says that the worst thing about keeping it to himself was thinking that he was an inferior copy of the robot, a "halfwit and lamebrain" , and a "kid's meal and a fake lip service and kids' meal and dummy and a lame brain." The protagonist says that he feels much better now, but that the robot's brain is still growing inside him. He compares the two of them to two different kinds of martial arts: "chan sijing," a Chinese martial art, and "strongest," a materialist philosophy that teaches that even inanimate objects have inherent buddhas. He tells the protagonist that he cannot allow the death of a robot to be pointless, as such a death is lower than that of a dog, and that the protagonist should not be an idiot for winning because he was "lucky" or "after he beat up and insulted him." He says the protagonist is starting to understand what it is like to be a human.