In this chapter, we get a brief description of the "unagi" , or fish, which is eaten in a Japanese restaurant. The narrator tells us that it's a sign that something bad or good is about to happen to the protagonist. He says that if something bad happens to you, it means that something good or bad will happen to you. He also says that the eel in the restaurant looks like a messenger from kokaz bosatsu, the spirit of wisdom, who will use its sword to apprehend a fugitive. The protagonist says that he's always been jealous of his wife, and that killing her would mean accepting that she could never be with anyone else. He doesn't want to be caught, he says, so he decided to turn himself in to the police. He explains that he was sure that killing his wife wouldn't have any effect on his life. He's glad that the police didn't arrest him for the crime, because that would have been a waste of time. He admits that he wasn't really shaken by his wife's accusation, but that it was the fact that he hadn't been shaken by the accusation that made him feel better about killing her that was the real reason he turned himself in. He tells the narrator that his wife asked him for a favor, and he was surprised to find that the protagonist was possessed by the ghost of his dead wife. He asks the protagonist to continue to live his life as he has been, and the narrator says that this is because of the guilt that is lifting.