The chapter opens with a conversation between Hiroshi and Yurya. Hiroshi tells Yuryarashi that his father has been working on a new text, and that he has already killed his father to keep him quiet about it. The chapter then shifts to Hiroshi's house, where he and his father discuss the situation. They discuss the possibility of a coup, but Hiroshi says that he will not allow it to happen. He tells his father that they have only a few hours to escape before the marshals arrive.