In this chapter, the narrator tells us that he and his family have been living in Japan for two years, and that he has received a message that three people have been found dead in the mountains. He asks the narrator to explain why a giraffe would appear to be a ghost. The narrator explains that the zoo and museum have both been destroyed by war, so there is no one left to know about the existence of a giraffe in the prefecture mountains. The giraffe would not be able to do anything about it, he says, because the giraffe had no part in the accident. He also tells the narrator that he fears that the two survivors of the accident may have been attacked by the giraffe ghost. He adds that the group of people who went into the mountain to find the giraffe's ghost is one of them, Rikka San.