This chapter opens with a flashback to the time when yoko was a child. She tells us that she has been away from her job with venus for three years, and that she is now back at the site of the monument to alita. She says that the monument has changed since then, and it is hard to find out where she is. She also says that her name was not true, but she has saved it to remind herself of it. The flashback also shows that yoko is now a member of the Third Reich's armed forces, and she says that she and venus have been working together on a new weapon, a serker gun, which is a mutation of "berranter cells" . She adds that the gun has been in use for a long time, and the captain of it came to them because he was looking for alita who was dumb as but good heart. He is also the director of a show at the International Arts Council, and he is rumored to be involved in a trade deal between the Republic of China and the International Empire. yoko says that they are in front of the grave of ninon, and they should not fight, because it is assumed that there is some sort of afterlife. .